Coastguard rescue
A French woman was airlifted to hospital with a broken arm in a rescue from a yacht off the Fair Isle between Orkney and the Shetlands.
Only the woman and her husband were on board when they put out a distress signal on Friday evening.
Northlink Ferries worked with coastguard teams to send a rescue craft to help the yacht, the Francois Marine, to shore.
A coastguard helicopter then flew the injured woman to hospital on Shetland.
Eilidh Scammell has lost exactly half her body weight – 11 stone and 3/4 lbs in just over a year – after taking up Highland dancing.
Eilidh, 37, from Skye, weighed around 22 stone at the beginning of last year and is now a svelte 11 stone – after starting a Highland dance exercise class and hitting the hills.
She said: “I recently bought a size 10 rain jacket – I had been a size 26. I never thought this would have been possible. I am proof you can lose weight if you make gradual changes to your life.
“Baby steps is the key to my success.”
Eilidh had been overweight since her late teens and had been on so many diets she had just given up as nothing ever worked.
“I wouldn’t eat enough and would be starving all the time,” said the research project manager.
“Then in the summer of 2016 I took a walking holiday in three cities, Copenhagen, Berlin and Paris, and I was struggling to keep up because of my size. I had pains in my knees and back and was on painkillers all the time. I just thought to myself, this is no way to live.
“So I decided to take up a challenge to walk 1000 miles in a year. That’s just under three miles a day.
“I wasn’t really thinking about losing weight. I just wanted to get a bit fitter.
“On February 5, I built up the courage to go on the scales.
“I weighed around 22 stone. It was a depressing moment.
“For years I had hated who I saw in the mirror.
“What I looked like reduced
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I feel fitter every day and I now have a new lease of life