An employee took the Stornoway Gazette's Twitter feed in a new (unconventional) direction.

The Stornoway Gazette got a surprise last week when the employee that runs the title's Twitter feed went off piste.

The unnamed tweeter wrote "We're a pretty dire newspaper all round it has to be said." on the public Twitter feed.

The feed is public, and can be read by anybody.

Currently, the Stornoway Gazette's Twitter has just over 5, 500 followers.

The mysterious tweeter went on to say "We were once a proud broadsheet", followed by "then we hired a big hack from Glasgow whose only intention was to slam the SNP, he has no idea about rural communities."

The Twitter feed usually consists of news stories written on the Stornoway Gazette's website.

The rogue tweets have now been deleted.