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“I hope you will forgive a stranger intruding on your sorrow, which must be so deep, but the story was so heart-rending I could not but write…” These were the parting words of a gentleman from Montrose in a letter written to Mr & Mrs Fraser of Inveroykel, written

W.A.M. MacKenzie gives a colourful account of the Trials in the 1950s. This event is still being held at Invercharron Farm as part of the Scottish National Sheep Dog Trials. By W.A.M. MacKenzie In order to live up to its full title, Creich and Kincardine Sheepdog

By Malcolm Bangor-Jones In 1893 the Airdens crofters waged their own land war. They withheld their rents and on several occasions forcibly prevented sheriff officers from serving legal papers. Prosecutions followed riotous proceedings and four crofters - subsequently known as the Airdens Martyrs - served short prison sentences. The term ‘martyr’

The true story behind the Rosehall bridge’s byname By Anna MacRae MacDonald The Minister’s Bridge is a beautiful single-track stone bridge over a deep, rocky ravine at Allt Mhor ('big burn') in a remote area between the Sutherland villages of Rosehall and Lairg. The source