Is the Loch Ness monster dead?
The legendary beasty that lives under the cold waters of Loch Ness may have died. Well that’s the premise of a new documentary which has the Loch Ness Monster fans in uproar. Ever since Saint Columba had his run in with the beasty under the waves, interest surrounding the monster of Loch Ness has caught the imagination of the world and never so much as in recent times. The possibility of an otherworldly creature living and breathing under a lake in Scotland defies our logical understanding of nature and returns some colour into a world that has become grey with science and its reductionist war on anything that brings a sprinkle of magic into our lives. Many a scientist would argue with that saying the Large Hadron Collider is a magical wonder that will reveal the secrets of the universe. If that floats their boat then fine, I for one am with the army of Nessy spotters whose idea of magic is sitting at the edge of a cold loch at sunrise with a camera and not monitoring a load of printed