Grieving Island Community Attacks ?Inadequate' Emergency Planning

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SENIOR members of the Western Isles community have attacked emergency planning measures on South Uist and Benbecula after a young island family were drowned amid last week's storms.

The small island community was shocked by the deaths of three generations of one family. Archie MacPherson, 36, his wife Murdina, 37, and both of their children, seven-year-old Andrew and Hannah, five, died along with Murdina's father Calum Campbell, 67, after they were swept away in Tuesday night's storm.

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Grieving Island Community Attacks ?Inadequate' Emergency Planning

A local man and friend of the family, who did not wish to be named, told the Sunday Herald that the deaths had highlighted the...

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