Obituaries

Highland solicitor and honorary sheriff Michael Burns has passed away at the age of 90, the Press and Journal reports. "Michael John Burns was born in the Shieling, Ferry Road, Dingwall where he lived for more than 80 years before moving to Maryburgh.

Sheriff Brian Lockhart has passed away at the age of 79. Born in Ayr in 1942, he was admitted as a solicitor in 1964 and was made partner at Robertson Chalmers & Auld in 1967. He became a temporary sheriff in 1977, a floating sheriff of North Strathclyde at Paisley in 1979 and then resident sher