Star Wars fans have defied warnings they were breaching God’s law by attending the first film to be shown in a public cinema on the Isle of Lewis on a Sunday.

All 183 tickets were sold for the showing of The Last Jedi, the latest instalment of the space saga, at the An Lanntair arts venue in Stornoway. Others attended a workshop which involved building a model Death Star.

Two protestors turned out at the cinema, with a woman holding a placard urging the cinema-goers to keep Sundays holy on the Sabbatarian isle off the west of Scotland.

The other protestor, the Rev. David Fraser of the Free Church of Scotland (Continuing), argued that they should "repent and be converted that your sins may be blotted out."

David Green, the chairman of the venue’s board, said some staff had faced pressure from their families over the move but argued that no one should be able to dictate to others “what they can and what they cannot do.”

The island was traditionally staunchly Presbyterian and its observance of the Sabbath was so strict there was a time when play park swings were chained up at dusk on Saturdays.

This has been diluted in recent years with the first commercial flight landing at Stornoway airport in 2002 and the island’s ferries operating on Sundays since 2009, despite fierce protests.