The narrow road has hairpin bends that cling to the rocky landscape and steep inclines that make the stomach lurch as it cuts its track through a Hebridean corner blessed with beautiful scenery. The ...

A two-mile stretch of road a crofter spent 10 years constructing has been allowed to fall into disrepair, according to those who use it. Calum Macleod's road, between Bochel Castle and Arnish on ...

Journalist and author Roger Hutchinson first encountered the tough and charming Calum MacLeod during the 1960s. But his book Calum's Road is more than just a tribute to this one man. It's an eloquent ...

IT WAS a long labour of love that brought fame to crofter Calum MacLeod and global attention to the island of Raasay. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited ...

Elemental drama set in the 1960s and 1970s and inspired by the true story of how one man built two miles of road by hand on the island of Raasay, which lies just off the east coast of Skye. Calum ...

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Ramona Koval: Some time in the 1950s (we can't be sure exactly when), a shy, unassuming, but articulate Scotsman called Calum MacLeod left his crofter's cottage early one morning with a wheelbarrow, a ...