Intermedia Services (Stornoway) Ltd is an accredited Living Wage Employer. The Poverty Alliance deliver the Scottish Living Wage Accreditation Initiative in partnership with the Living Wage Foundation. 

The Living Wage commitment sees everyone working at Intermedia Services (Stornoway) Ltd receive a real Living Wage of at least £9.00 per hour..

The real Living Wage is an hourly rate, calculated annually by the Resolution Foundation and overseen by the Living Wage Commission, based on the best available evidence on living standards in the UK.

Employers choose to pay the real Living Wage on a voluntary basis.

We produce EVENTS - a free monthly magazine on newsprint serving the Western Isles  – which was founded in 2005.

Available from distinctively marked stands all across the Islands, EVENTS has a pick-up of around 13,500 in the summer and 11,000 in the winter and a linked website - www.hebevents.com - from where it can be downloaded

There is a suite of related websites - all accessed via our www.hebevents.com portal. 

With our news and information website, welovestornoway.com we bring news every day throughout the day to and from the Western Isles (or Outer Hebrides.)

There are also Facebook pages and Twitter accounts for EVENTS; and for www.welovestornoway.com:

twitter.com/styeventsmag
www.facebook.com/EVENTSMONTHLY/

en-gb.facebook.com/welovestornoway/
twitter.com/welovesy

And for a wider readership, there's now the Scottish Islands Explorer Magazine - with its own website and Facebook Page.

In 1999, journalist and editor Fred Silver created the first incarnation of Intermedia Services working from home in the Point village of Lower Bayble and set out to bridge perceived gaps between local information suppliers and consumers.

This was to be achieved through writing for websites, training for community newspaper staff and volunteers, along with creating publicity and providing articles to local, regional and national publications.

Major projects included the Eriskay Causeway Information Service which provided a constant flow of information about the building of the £10m causeway and the ferry link to Barra.

Fred worked with and for Western Isles Enterprise, HITRANS, the Western Isles NHS Board, Comhairle nan Eilean Siar, and a variety of other community agencies.

From the early days in 1999, Intermedia Services (Stornoway) Ltd provided design and printing services.  Now its modern digital printing systems and wide-format printers enable island customers to access a range of printing work, signs, design, web design, social media coverage, news and information through one reception area on the first floor in Stornoway Media Centre at Church House, James Street, Stornoway, HS1 2QN.

Contact details 

Telephone: (00 44) 1851 705743 

Email addresses:

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This policy applies on and from 25 May 2018

Keeping your data safe

At Intermedia Services (Stornoway) Ltd we are committed to keeping your personal data safe and secure, and handling it in accordance with our legal obligations.

This Privacy Policy sets out in detail the purposes for which we process your personal data in relation to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) May 25 2018 , who we share it with, what rights you have in relation to that data and everything else we think it's important for you to know.

The business information contained in displays on our various on-line and printed publications is intended to serve our legitimate interests and those of our business and personal customers by publicising their work, services and products and how their own and would-be customers should contact them.  The data we retain is intended for our legitimate purpose of running our business accounts and maintaining our services to our customers.

The information which is published as part of advertising or promotional work is used in good faith on behalf of these businesses.

However, in their advertisements some people may have used personal email addresses (or domestic postal addresses) which now fall under GDPR or related regulations (PECR). If you wish to change this information, or exclude this information,  please contact us at

We will treat your data with respect and we will never sell your data to a third party.

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Summary of our data protection principles

1. We collect and use information about people fairly and lawfully, without unwarranted harm or intrusion into their private life.
2. We don’t use the information for any other incompatible purposes – that is, beyond journalism or our advertising work on behalf of customers and clients.
3. We ensure the information is adequate, relevant and not excessive for our purpose.
4. We always aim to ensure as far as possible that any information is accurate and (where necessary) kept up-to-date.
5. We don’t keep it for longer than necessary. If the data is used for accounting purposes and reasons relating to tax liability, these periods of time are laid down by HMRC and other laws and regulations and are beyond our control.
6. We comply with individuals’ rights (eg to access or modify their information).
7. We keep the information securely.
8. The editor is regarded as the 'data controller'.