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...this from the Herlad today:
IN a 21st-century reworking of Whisky Galore, the inhabitants of Coll were last night on a collision course with the authorities after a whale's jawbones mysteriously vanished on the small island.
A Celtic brotherhood on Coll in the Inner Hebrides have secreted the two 12ft jawbones to try to thwart attempts to remove them by the National Museums of Scotland.
Taking their "subversive" lead from Compton Mackenzie's book, one of the islanders said last night: "Something like this happens once in a blue moon. Why should we not keep them?
"They were going to be a whale arch for our village at Arinagour. We don't want to let them go, and the islanders have hidden them."

"Police telephoned one islander today to tell him that, if the whale's jawbones were not on the pier by tomorrow night, there will be legal action."
The jawbones belong to a 56ft fin whale which was stranded on Coll at the beginning of February. Experts believe that the creature was dead when it was washed ashore.
The rest of the skeleton was taken from the beach three weeks ago in a major operation which involved removing the blubber and soft tissue, and taking the bones by truck and ferry to the National Museums of Scotland's research base in Edinburgh.

Jerry Herman, assistant curator of mammals at the NMS, said: "Whoever took these went to a lot of trouble. It was obviously someone who had a rough idea of what they were doing, because they have been cut out quite neatly.

"Police telephoned one islander today to tell him that, if the whale's jawbones were not on the pier by tomorrow night, there will be legal action."