Government's Raasay decision has disturbing overtones of 40 years ago
AS the reporter who brought the Raasay scandal to the-then Glasgow Herald readership some 40 years ago, I was appalled to read that it is still alive and well and resident in governing establishments in Edinburgh ("Crofters lose shooting rights to outsiders", the Herald, February 21, and Letters, February 23).
AS the reporter who brought the Raasay scandal to the-then Glasgow Herald readership some 40 years ago, I was appalled to read that it is still alive and well and resident in governing establishments in Edinburgh (\"Crofters lose shooting rights to outsiders\", the Herald, February 21, and Letters, February 23).
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I had first come across the start of this sad saga as a young reporter in Skye eight years earlier.
I thought it had died with the demise of the notorious Dr John Green in 1980. But it raises its ugly head again 33 years later with disturbing echoes of the earlier flawed decision to sell out the people of Raasay.
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Government's Raasay decision has disturbing overtones of 40 years ago
AS the reporter who brought the Raasay scandal to the-then Glasgow Herald readership some 40 years ago, I was appalled to read that it is still alive and well and resident in governing establishments in Edinburgh ("Crofters lose shooting rights to outsiders", the Herald, February 21, and Letters, February 23).
I had first come across the start of this sad saga as a young reporter in Skye eight years earlier.
I thought it had died with the demise of the notorious Dr John Green in 1980. But it raises its ugly head again 33 years later with disturbing echoes of the earlier flawed decision to sell out the people of Raasay.
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