Businessman and philanthropist Sir Tom Hunter has paid for the plane flying Alex Salmond's body home from North Macedonia. The former first minister died of a heart attack on Saturday while attending a conference in North Macedonia.

The mystery donor who paid for the body of Alex Salmond to be flown back to Scotland has been revealed as philanthropist Sir Tom Hunter. The 69-year-old was attending a conference in the city of Ohrid,

Hunter said Salmond and his family “deserved the dignity and privacy” of a private return to Scotland because of the