On the anniversary of VE Day Torcuil Crichton recounts the remarkable story of his uncle, the late Alasdair Crichton who was an elder in our congregation.
Torcuil Crichton (born December 1964) is a Scottish Labour Party politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Na h-Eileanan an Iar since 2024....
Torcuil Crichton
Scottish politician
Torcuil Crichton (born December 1964) is a ScottishLabour Party politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Na h-Eileanan an Iar since 2024.[1] He previously worked as a journalist and Gaelic broadcaster.[2]
Journalism career
Crichton was born in December 1964.[3] He is from Swordale in Point, Isle of Lewis, where he grew up.[2][4] He attended Knock primary school.[5]
He worked as a journalist with the West Highland Free Press, and subsequently for the Daily Record for 12 years, leaving his role as Westminster editor in 2022.[6] He has also worked for the Herald and Sunday Herald, as well as the BBC,[7] for whom he made a Gaelic TV documentary, broadcast on BBC Alba, on Donald Trump's mother Mary Anne MacLeod's journey from the Isle of Lewis to America, Mathair a' Chinn-Suidhe – Trump's Mother.[8][9]
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