Gaelic entertainer Maclean dies

Renowned entertainer and writer Norman Maclean has died aged 80.

Glasgow-born Maclean worked in both Gaelic and English, and often weaved the two languages together in his routines.

He was also a singer and piper and released several albums of comedy and singing.

In the 1970s, the Royal National Mòd gold medallist’s programme Tormod air Telly was the first Gaelic comedy to appear on television.

Maclean also won the Comunn Gàidhealach Gold Medal and was crowned as a poet at the Mòd in Glasgow in 1967 – the only person ever to gain both prizes in the same year.

He spent the final years of his life in Uist. 0 Norman Maclean worked in both English and Gaelic