Former first minister Alex Salmond has been remembered as not just the political leader who took Scotland “so close to his dream of independence”, but as a “dear friend”.
Tributes were paid to the 69-year-old at a funeral service on Tuesday following his sudden death in North Macedonia earlier this month.
The former SNP leader, who later went on to set up the Alba Party, had been speaking at a conference in the country when he suffered a heart attack.
