Some residents have suggested boycotting her Tweed Tastic shop in Stornoway, which is understood to be the only retailer that opens in the town centre on a Sunday.

Ms Rawlinson said she was sent a bible and a letter by Dan MacPhail, secretary of the Day One/Lord’s Day Observance Society.

He wrote: "The purpose of our letter is certainly not to intimidate you into closing on Sunday... nor are we aware of any organised campaign in relation to this matter.

"However, it is a sincere and humble request that you consider closing the shop on the Lord's Day."

The letter adds: "We are concerned for the spiritual and eternal as well as temporal consequences of such actions of Sunday opening and do not believe that lasting blessing or profit will follow.