Lawrence mc ean died aged 80. His son colin took over running of the island after his father's death. Sir colin had different ideas about modernizing the place to go a good deal faster. He stood out against having any second homes there, so hou didn't have the sit which you have on many other scottish islands.
POLLS SUGGEST // Polls suggest the country might get its first-ever leftist leader. Whatever the outcome, a fresh outbreak of violent protest may await. Africa’s increasingly crippling fuel shortages can be blamed on more than just higher prices. And reflecting on the life of Lawrence MacEwen, laird of a tiny Scottish island whose austere simplicity he fought to preserve.
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