I WAS interested to read David Ross's article on Canna and the National Trust for Scotland ("No more growth of Canna's population by NTS", The Herald, April 22).

I visited Canna last summer on a beautiful, hot sunny day. I asked if I could buy a house on the island, and the answer was no. I then asked if I could buy a roofless ruin and do it up, and again the answer was no. Without some connection to the NTS you cannot live there.

Charles Murray,

71 Fruin Avenue, Newton Mearns.