Day: March 19, 2014

During the past fortnight I have republished four of my newspaper articles written while I was working as an investigative journalist in Scotland and North East England. The first looked at the likely governmental conspiracy over the outbreak of Foot and Mouth Disease in 2001 another at the secrecy of the Bilderberg organisation, a third was a piece about the top secret Aurora aircraft and the last one looked at big cats at large in the UK.
Today I reload an exclusive I wrote in 1995 on the tenth anniversary of the mysterious death of Scottish Nationalist leader Willie McRae.

A CATALOGUE of bungling by authorities at all levels may have helped maintain a huge cover-up of the circumstances surrounding the death of the prominent Scottish Nationalist,on a bleak Highland road 10 years ago next week, and may have been the victim of Government secret services.
Mr McRae, 61, a lawyer and leading figure in the SNP set off from Glasgow on Friday, April 5, 1985, to spend the weekend at his cottage in Kintail.
At 10am the next day he was found in his crashed Volvo by an Australian tourist about 35 yards off the A87 near Loch Loyne.
The car was upright across a small burn and believed to have been there since midnight.
The Australian waved down a car in which Dundee SNP councillor, Mr David Coutts, was travelling to Skye with his wife Alison and two friends.
Mr Coutts, who recognised Mr McRae, summoned an ambulance and the police. He also discovered that Mr McRae’s