Angus MacDonald: “I’d also like to see Highland Council working more with families and communities to address absences.”

It is very concerning that the Highlands have some of the highest absence rates in the country.

I would hope that the landowner could be prevailed upon to recognise that this is not a significant commercial enterprise and extracting an ever-increasing toll is not just or practical.

If a sensible compromise cannot be hammered out, it would not surprise me if the community were to push for a legislative solution and I would back them in doing so.

The Scottish Government needs to do more to tackle the harms that have persisted following the Covid-19 pandemic, particularly around social isolation.