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THE Outer Hebrides are a very long way from Sussex.

One reader, visiting her mother-in-law on the south coast of England over Christmas, got chatting about the Western Isles.

"I'd love to go to the Hebrides," enthused the mother-in-law, before adding, "but I understand August is a bad time to go."

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