A SHOP owner on the Isle of Lewis has refused a plea by Sabbatarians to close on Sundays, despite a suggestion islanders would boycott her shop, writes Sandy Neil.
Entrepreneur Leona Rawlinson, who came to Lewis as a child, opened her shop, Tweedtastic, on Stornoway’s Church Street this summer and kept the doors open on Sundays while she was in her workshop. But earlier this month she was sent a Bible and a letter from the Lewis and Harris branch of the Day One/ Lord’s Day Observance Society (LDOS), asking her to close on the Sabbath.
The letter, published on the National Secular Society’s website, first congratulated Ms Rawlinson on her successful new business, and expressed its desire to see her venture succeed.