HIGHLAND HERALD

For thirty years, David Ross was the Highland reporter for The Herald. It was not a period lacking in drama. He covered the fight against a nuclear waste dump in Caithness, the proposed Harris superquarry, the anti-toll campaign on the Skye Bridge, the efforts to save Gaelic and protect ferry services, and the community buyout in Assynt. Here he reflects on these stories and the changing nature of the Highlands and Islands, and for the first time writes about his late father-in-law, the Gaelic poet Sorley MacLean.