Word: vesteys
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...look over his shoulder. For the first time, he wasn't a criminal trespassing on the property of absentee landlords. Who owns Scotland? On the whole, not the Scots. Until last June, the 17,800 hectares of Assynt's Drumrunie and Glencanisp estates belonged to members of the Vestey family, one of England's wealthiest, who would venture up from London every August to enjoy a spot of shooting. Of the 97% of Scotland that is rural land, 88% is privately owned, with two-thirds of that in the hands of 1,252 individuals, families and companies. Mohamed al Fayed...