QOSHE - Mark Smith: The case for breaking up the Highlands I was up in Inverness recently stopping people in the street and asking them questions, as you do, and one thing that kept coming up, because I kept asking about it, was what they thought of life in the Highlands. On the whole, they said, it was good; they loved it. But what they didn’t love was the state of the local services and the local council. The big question is: what’s to be done about it?