Lotto cash saves writer's home

A FORMER home of a Scottish writer is to be saved in the Aberdeenshire town that refused to stock her best-known work.

Lorna Moon, who died in 1930, upset residents of her home town of Strichen with her book Dark Star.

Its characters were deemed to closely resemble people in the community, and Strichen library banned the book.

A project to save and convert a lodge where she lived is among schemes across Scotland to have secured lottery funding. The money is from a 6.9 million package that was put together by Big Lottery Fund Scotland