The funeral of Lise Sinclair was held in Fair Isle. The sun streamed in the windows of the small Methodist Chapel where Lise had often played the organ. Family and friends gathered to pay their last respects to a radiant personality who’ll be remembered far beyond her native.
âWeâve got readers from all over the place,â Fair Isleâs Eileen Thomson says, with some amount of pride.
âItâs not just in the isle – thereâs friends and family of folk in the isle, and people who visited, and people with connections going way back still get their
Fair Isle Times, and absolutely love it.
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âWe get lovely messages from folk saying itâs the highlight of their week and theyâll print it out, sit and read it.â
Since 1978 the
Fair Isle Times has been keeping the remote community, which has a population of around 48, connected, informed and entertained each week.