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June 5, 2021 The Cuillin mountain range with croft farm, sheep and Loch Harport near Coillure on Isle of Skye. Credit: Tim Graham/Getty Images
Remote working has a whole other meaning for those passionate individuals still farming crofts in the Highlands. Joe Gibbs takes a look and discovers crofting to be alive and well though still as tough a life as it ever was.
The tiny west Highland township of Elphin, north of Ullapool, stands out from the moorland landscape as a patchwork of bright green. Its rare fertility derives from a seam of limestone beneath the soil. Rank heath surrounds it as far as the eye can see and beyond that lie slabs of Lewisian gneiss, the oldest rocks in Europe, three billion years old. Home to about 60 souls, many of them crofting families, Elphin straddles the A835, until recently a road unremarkable for much other than the lonely beauty of the hills either side and the fish lorries from Lochinver that thunder s
Are these the latest victims of the trendy rewilding craze? These shocking pictures revealed the plight of deer - including one in calf - killed illegally near a Scottish estate. But as GUY ADAMS reveals, they may also be evidence in a criminal inquiry
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Detectives are trying to establish whether seven deer (maybe more) were shot illegally to prevent them damaging small trees to be planted near Loch Suardal
Deaths are now subject of fierce debate, with several theories doing the rounds
Killing female deer after April is illegal in Scotland unless given a special licence