THE ROAMER column was the highlight of a Thursday for many Lochaber readers, and so this week he returns with a timely look back at the events and people that made it into his columns between 1985 to 2016…
■ A Danish yacht going through Laggan Locks was followed by a public-spirited report to Northern Constabulary that a woman on board was playing with ‘a large striped cat’.
The well-meaning person who contacted the police was obviously concerned there might be an infringement of the quarantine regulations. However, when an official check was made further along the canal at Banavie, the ‘large striped cat’ turned out to be a well wrapped up infant – in a striped babygro.