It seems unfair on the others affected and their families to pick out one particular victim of this tragedy but I have been particularly moved by the story of poor Eilidh Macleod who was confirmed to have died yesterday. At 14 she wasn’t the youngest victim, but somehow the story of her excited birthday treat accompanied by one of her friends from remote Barra in the Outer Hebrides, islands about which there has been a glowing thread running elsewhere on here, has really got to me. Her parents have suffered agonies hoping for days that she would be found safe and well only to receive the very worst news when cold reality tells us why there could be no news. The picture in the link below of a 9 year old Eilidh playing the pipes is simply heartbreaking.