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My blog is not strictly fashion, beauty..or all things frivolous!

I also want to speak about lifestyle, opinions,

and interact with others! 

Who for the most part, (well, the frivolous part) are like minded!

I have mentioned before, but not often..that I am from the North West of Scotland.

An Island called Lewis, and I was brought up in the town of Stornoway :)

Which I couldn't be more proud of!

You may have seen/heard a lot about Stornoway in the news this week

if you live in the UK!

Sadly, not for the right reasons.

This means a lot to me, so please bear with me!

Just over a nine days ago, a 16 year old boy, Liam Aitchison was found murdered. His body left in

an abandoned building for about a week.

The police are still investigating this, they have dedicated a lot of time, and people.

I have a lot of faith in them!

I am aware that the majority, if not all of my 'followers'

will have never heard of Lewis..never been to Stornoway..

or ever plan to go! (although you should!)

It may be surprising, but this is the first murder on the island in over 40 years.

This was reason for it becoming front page news in a lot of papers!

Something which is almost unheard of these days, and we have become so desensitised to 

seeing violence, hearing of murder..mass murder on a weekly basis!

On Tuesday 6th December, this also led to it being discussed on 

'The Wright Stuff' on Channel5

In a 20 second segment, the host, Matthew Wright,

made some comments.

Which first of all I would like to make clear as there has been a lot of debate,

were off the cuff, and thoughtless. Nevertheless, horribly offensive to the situation, and the completely insensitive to the family.

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Death and murder are hard enough to for those left behind to live with, but the death of a child, I find is no

laughing matter! In any circumstance, or should have even come into a light hearted segment.

I found him to be very thoughtless and crass indeed.

We may not come from the most 'populous area' as he said, 

but we have certainly shown that we are a community.

Not a mob, on a witch hunt.

But a community which is hurt,

and although we may be a minority,

I can guarantee no one would have let him get away with such comments

had it been about Milly Dowler, Holly and Jessica or the many others

who have been taken, and left us with heartache from such a loss!

And to make matters worse, his forced apology the following day

in which he told people in basic terms, I am sorry if you were offended by my comments, and not a sincere I am sorry if I offended you..

and there is a difference!

and also telling the people complaining to 'grow up'.

I just find this unacceptable.

I will add that he added a more sincere apology again today,

but I suspect that was, being honest, probably more

for the backlash he is now getting, than because he wanted to!

Jeremy Kyle may be a lot of things Matthew,

but at least he can admit when hes wrong.

I want to stress again that this is not a witch hunt,

but this happens all too often now, and sometimes you need to be held responsible.

Yes opinions are allowed, but what ever happened to 'If you have nothing nice to say,

say nothing at all'!

The family are undoubtedly going through enough,

and people being up in arms about Matthew Wrights comments is not to add to that,

And I believe the family know that due to their statement.

The last thing that family should have had to do, is defend the child they have just 

lost and condemn the comments made on the show.

But I also hope that the publicity over the comments made, do not define Liam,

and simply shows the immense support within our community for his family,

and each other!

A facebook page has been made,

I am not asking anyone to complain,

please don't see it as a negative,

but simply a way to show support to the family

for the added hurt that has been caused!

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However, if you did feel you wanted to make a complaint,

there are also details on there detailing how!

Thank you

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