Angus MacDonald: “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.

I’d also like to see Highland Council working more with families and communities to address absences.

I must say that to many these ancient rights look increasingly unjustifiable.

The sense of closing asylum hotels in town centres in the South of England while opening an Inverness asylum barracks similarly poorly located defied logic.