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Gaelic broadcaster makes the news with OBE

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A Gaelic broadcaster is getting used to being the news instead of reporting it.

Kenneth MacIver, 63, from the isle of Lewis, has been made an OBE for services to Gaelic broadcasting and services to the Western Isles community.

Mr MacIver has a popular daily radio show on BBC Radio Nan Ghaidheal.

He has been a broadcaster for 40 years, was elected to Western Isles Council three times and is a former editor of the Stornoway Gazette. He founded the Gaelic community newspaper Loch A Tuath.

Mr MacIver’s wife Ishbel is a nurse, and they have three grown-up children.

He was educated at Back Primary School and The Nicolson Institute on Lewis.

He completed an MA at Aberdeen University.

He was a member of Stornoway Trust, the community landlord, for 20 years and was chairman of the trust for six years.

Mr MacIver said: “I’m not sure how I feel about it. I’m usually reporting on other people getting things like this.

“I have spoken to so many people over the years and I never considered that anybody might think I was worthy of getting an honour like this.

“I have been involved in all sorts of community bodies over the last 40 years, but everything I did, I did because I wanted to.

“I feel very humbled that anyone would think that anything I did was worthy of being recognised.”