Imagine Inverness and the wider Highlands and Islands in 20S0. Imagine that the town and its surrounding area are. by this point, every bit as successful economically and otherwise as any part of Britian. Far-fetched? Not particularly. Certainly no more far-fetched than it would have been to forecast in 1990 that Inverness, ten years on, might have a football team capable of knocking Celtic out of the Scottish Cup.
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