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.
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