ABSTRACT
Neil and Fiona Sinclair moved to the Nairn area in the summer of 1988. Neil had got a job in the local secondary school. Fiona's contract had ended on a Manpower Services Commission community programme. The clean Highland air and the country tranquility contrasted dramatically with their previous home in a town centre flat in Stirling. In January 1989 they bought their own house in Culloden, a new housing area five miles east of Inverness and a couple of miles north from the site of the infamous battle. They settled into their new home and Fiona managed to get a job at the Culloden Visitor Centre. While there she saw a small notice in the local paper, which mentioned that the then Secretary of State for Scotland, Malcolm Rifkind, had ordered a public inquiry into Highland Regional Council's refusal of planning consent for a "controversial" incinerator at the Dalcross industrial estate plant of Nontox.1
