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Family and friends will gather today at St Mary's Church at Griminish on Benbecula to pay their respects to Archie and Murdina MacPherson, and their children, Andrew, seven, and Hannah, five, who died in last Tuesday's storm when they were trying to flee their home on South Uist. Mrs MacPherson's father Calum Campbell was also killed.

I'm sure everybody - especially on the islands - will give a thought to the remaining family and friends.

It's a timely reminder of the terrible power of the weather, and I don't think the storms are over for the winter yet.