IT may interest the entrepreneurs among our readership to learn that as from today, it will be possible to place a hotel on Loch Ness.
You can also snap up Balmoral Castle, barter the Forth Bridge for haggis and whisky, and charge the unwary a hefty fee for visiting the Cairngorms.
Any budding Donald Trumps, Lord Sugars or Apprentice candidates should not get carried away, however, for these are all merely components of the latest version of the board game Monopoly.
The game itself has come a long way - in more ways than one - since its launch in the United States in 1935. It was originally based on the streets and utilities of Atlantic City, though most of us are more familiar with the journey from Old Kent Road to Mayfair. The Scotland version of Monopoly, which is launched today, also features such locations as the Cairngorms, Loch Lomond and Edinburgh, and luminaries including Robert the Bruce, William Wallace, Andy Murray and JK Rowling.
Interestingly, it will now be possible to sell the Scottish Parliament. Bear in mind, however, you will run the risk of going to jail. Whether that is Saughton or Barlinnie is perhaps best left to the imagination.
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