THE convener of Comhairle nan Eilean Siar has paid tribute to former Councillor Iain Mac- Kenzie, who died aged 72 on Thursday June 30.
Mr MacKenzie was educated at Bayble Junior Secondary and the Nicolson Institute before studying at Lewis Castle College and then at Stow College in Glasgow.
He worked as a radar and radio/TV engineer for five years and then as an air traffic engineer at Stornoway Airport between 1968 and 2006, before he was elected to the comhairle as a councillor for Steòrnabhagh a Tuath in 2007, being re-elected in 2012.