Sir, There is something very sad about watching any rural community fall out, but none more so than a close-knit island one. I am, of course, referring to Mull, which has moved with the times without losing its traditional values and, more importantly, been at peace with itself for generations.
The recent announcement that Cabinet Secretary for Land Reform Roseanna Cunningham may take the unprecedented step of supporting a small, unelected group in north Mull to launch a bid to buy the Island of Ulva and back it financially thereafter, is set to create deep divisions which will not be easily healed.
If this is what the Scottish Government desires, and I don’t believe it is, it runs contrary to a ballot recently taken by Mull’s democratically elected community council, which voted 7:1 against the proposal.