Vital early intervention work in Dumfries and Galloway is giving hundreds of kids a better chance in life – and saving authorities nearly £17m per year.
25.01.2023 - 11:59 / dailyrecord.co.uk
Holidaymakers could soon be given the chance to stay on an island where a murder took place.
Plans have been submitted to turn two buildings on Little Ross, right, into holiday accommodation.
The island is also home to a lighthouse and it was in the cottages there that the body of relief lighthouse keeper Hugh Clark was discovered one day in August, 1960.
It emerged he had been murdered by assistant lighthouse keeper Robert Dickson who was convicted of the crime. He was sentenced to be hanged but later took his life in prison.
Ironically, an official from the Northern Lighthouse Board was due to come to the island on the day of the murder to inform the staff the station was to be made automatic.
The island was sold in 2017, going for “significantly more” than the £325,000 asking price. The deal included the cottages where the murder took place but not the lighthouse tower itself.
Now, a planning application has been lodged with the council to redevelop two old buildings on the island – a barn and a row of three single-storey, B-listed cottages.
Documents lodged by agents Lipton Plant Architects reveal a second storey with two bedrooms would be added to the barn while the cottages would become one dwelling with two bedrooms.
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