The Isle of Skye in the northwest Highlands of Scotland is as rustic and rugged as it gets.
There are also similar bursary schemes in other remote areas such as the Highlands of Scotland.
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You can't be brought up in the Highlands of Scotland without realising that.
The menace builds steadily until a brutal assassination in Berlin, after which Michel, tracked by Mossad, goes on the run to the highlands of Scotland.
In the later eighteenth century the simple fact of losing land and becoming landless, he says, was much more significant for large numbers of people in Lowland society than it was in the Gaelic speaking Highlands of Scotland.
There is certainly nothing conventional about Glen, who left school at 17, never attended university and managed to talk his way into a job at Xerox after having spent time roaming the Highlands of Scotland for a living.
Crofting is a form of regulated land tenure, unique to the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, which is subject to the Crofting Acts.
The search, around Knoydart Peninsula, Kinlochourn, Barrisdale and Glen Quoich, is being coordinated by the Highlands and Islands division of Police Scotland.
Working alongside colleagues from the University of Highlands and Islands, Scotland, the pair found the same results in the environment as well, allowing them to conclude that it was the effect of tipping that was triggering the response in the trees.
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At the beginning of Mr Fry's period the Highlands were virtually a different nation from the Lowlands of Scotland.
Large parts of the Highlands and north-east Scotland have been cut off, with the main route - the A9 - shut in several places.
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He is the chairman of the Highlands and Islands Enterprise and was latterly chairman of Scottish government agency, Skills Development Scotland.
The fund is being run by Scottish Enterprise and Highlands and Islands Enterprise, with involvement from Royal Bank of Scotland.
Ofgem told BBC Radio Scotland that the Highlands and Islands exemption would end because of confusion over payments following bad storms in December 2011 and January 2012.
The director of business body CBI Scotland has called for improvements to transport links to the Highlands.
The move follows Scottish Executive agency Transport Scotland publishing the findings of two major studies on key routes to the Highlands.
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Communities in the Highlands and Islands are not terribly similar, even if they look that way from other parts of Scotland.
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Some areas of the Highlands and Islands have largely escaped the snowfalls that have caused chaos in several more southern and eastern areas of Scotland since last Friday.
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