Top political journalist to lead Our Islands — Our Future conference

Award-winning political journalist Iain Macwhirter is to lead the Our Islands — Our Future conference in Orkney on September 19-20.

Mr Macwhirter is the political commentator for The Herald and The Sunday Herald and also recently presented the three-part Road to the Referendum television series for STV.

Orkney Islands Council, Shetland Islands Council and Comhairle nan Eilean Siar are working closely together on the campaign which hopes to establish a stronger future for the islands following the Independence Referendum in 2014 – whatever the outcome of the vote.

They want to see the special position and needs of the UK’s three largest island groups fully taken into account in new constitutional arrangements for Scotland. They are also seeking additional powers and resources to give them a greater ability to shape the destinies of the three island groups.