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Scottish island seeks new families

Published Thursday, October 12, 2006 by Attu | | E-mail this post

A remote Scottish island has received a flurry of interest from around the world after it advertised for families to increase its 15-strong population.

Canna, a four-mile long island in the Inner Hebrides owned by the National Trust for Scotland (NTS), is connected to the rest of the world by just three ferries a week in winter and its school has only one pupil.

However, the long winter nights, incessant winds and isolation has done little to put off more than 300 people who have shown an interest in moving to Canna after two family houses were advertised for rent at the weekend.