John Kirk is clear about what he saw while driving into Grantown-on-Spey with his wife on the evening of Friday 17 April. "We were going to pick up the grandchildren from a friend's house," he says.

The push to reintroduce lynx into the wild continues – despite John Swinney previously ruling it out – with conservationists set to consult locals on releasing them back into the Highlands. The wild ...