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Western Isles battle rests on Christian vote

Traditionally, political victory in this island seat has gone to a Hebridean, sent south to represent communities from the north of Presbyterian Lewis to Roman Catholic Barra. Now a Borderer may break the sequence.

If you Google Sir Wilson Ramsay you will learn that Albert Finney refused to play him in the recent film about Gerhardt Zucher, the German scientist who disastrously tried to send mail by rocket between the islands of Scarp and Harris in 1934.