Loch Ness owes its fame to a monster. And the monster owes its fame to a newspaper. The Inverness Courier — unlike Nessie — definitely exists. And it was that paper, 90 years ago, that unwittingly ...

It could have been the Loch Ness Monster — giant, mysterious and foreboding. Or, as some preferred, the Kelpie: a mystical shape-shifter often portrayed as a water horse in Scottish lore. But what ...