Farming matters: Niall Blair - 'It should not be hard to improve rural mobile signals'

This week marks 91 years since the last full time inhabitants on the islands of St Kilda were evacuated.

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Farming matters: Niall Blair - 'It should not be hard to improve rural mobile signals'

This week marks 91 years since the last full time inhabitants on the islands of St Kilda were evacuated. Geographically remote, these islands lie in the Atlantic ocean approximately 40 miles west of...

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