Between the Lines: Yes, this park can indeed lead us out of recession

AS A headline it took some beating for bravura: National Park can lead Scots out of recession. Thus declared Mike Cantlay, convener of the Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park on the front page of the Stirling Observer with a chutzpah that would put even Alex Salmond in the shade.

"Totally over the top" might well be your reaction. But hyperbolic though it looks, Cantlay has alighted on an evident truth about our predicament as the economic storm worsens, and struck a positive note that should serve as a national example acr...