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This article reports aspects of a study conducted in 2005 which explored the role of the church as a voluntary organisation, in deaths by Suicide in Highland. The study was explorative and consisted of interviewing ministers from the Christian Churches of different denominations in Highland about their own experiences as ministers of the Church, of death by suicide and what they understood to be the key aspects of their experiences that might contribute to thinking about how the Church could offer protection and solace. Two findings are highlighted here: the importance of multidisciplinary education involving ministers and the potential of parish nursing as a mechanism for connectedness.

The Highlands of Scotland, like the southern Appalachians of the United States, have long been a problem area in Great Britain, troubled with a fading economy and loss of population. Most books about the region, however, are popular volumes that romanticize a bygone way of life. This study of Ford, a village of some 160 people in western Argyllshire, thus fills a gap in the literature and provides a look at the present realities of Scottish life.Although the Highlands are by no means a homogeneous region, Ford in its size and makeup is perhaps a representative rural settlement. John Stephenson

This presentation introduces research being carried out by the University of the Highlands and Islands in relation to the poverty-induced attainment gap in Scottish education. This Scottish Government funded research explores the modes of identification of the most socially and economically deprived groups in Scotland and considers how this results in the omission of certain pockets of evidence, owing to the diverse terrain and demographic environment of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. "Cryptopoverty" is a term coined to describe the lived experience of those households who fall outside the index used by the Scottish Government for measuring the worst social and economic deprivation, yet who experience extreme social and economic difficulties. At present, the educational needs of this group can be supported if the household is eligible for free school meals. This presentation explores the need for qualitative data to support the identification of households in cryptopoverty and explores the view that free school meals status should, at present, remain the key indicator for financial support.

?Jess reveals a way of life that leaves the reader full of admiration' ? Mary Horner Scottish Gypsies, known as Travellers or Tinkers, have wandered Scotland's roads and byways for centuries. Their turbulent history is captured in this passionate new book by Jess Smith, the bestselling author of Jessie's Journey and a Traveller herself. Her quest for the truth takes her on a personal journey of discovery through the tales, songs and culture of the ?pilgrims of the mist', who preferred freedom to security, and a campfire under the stars to a hearth within stone walls. The history Jess has unc