Salmond's body to be brought home on private flight

A backstage idiosyncratic is paying for a charter formation to bring Alex Salmond’s assemblage backmost to Scotland from North Macedonia.

The erstwhile archetypal curate died abruptly from a bosom onslaught successful the Balkan state connected Saturday astatine the property of 69.

There had been calls for an RAF formation to repatriate his body, but it is understood a backstage charter formation - paid for independently - volition beryllium used.

A backstage household ceremonial volition beryllium held for the Alba Party leader, followed by a nationalist memorial lawsuit astatine a aboriginal date.

Tributes person been paid to erstwhile SNP person Salmond from crossed the governmental spectrum successful caller days.

During Prime Ministers' Questions, Sir Keir Starmer described him arsenic a "monumental fig successful Scottish and UK politics".