Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.When a ferry load of Syrians arrived one December night in the town of Rothesay on the Isle of Bute, they had no idea what sort of reaction to expect.Families, who’d fled their homes having endured the living hell of civil war, were given safe refuge in a part of Scotland best-known as the venue for many a sepia-toned holiday memory from yesteryear.None had any notion of what it meant to go ‘doon the watter’.
Wherever they’d landed now, these 24 families were just relieved to be living without bombs, terror and persecution.Five years later, many of them gathered in the town’s square, now the fully-integrated members of a community being celebrated as.