Private donor to pay for Alex Salmond’s body to be flown home

Move comes after Foreign Office rejected calls for RAF to arrange flight following Salmond’s death in North Macedonia

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A private donor has paid for a charter flight to repatriate Alex Salmond’s body from North Macedonia, after the Foreign Office rejected calls for the RAF to arrange the flight.

Salmond, the former first minister of Scotland, died suddenly of a heart attack during a lunch at a conference at a lakeside resort of Ohrid on Saturday and was pronounced dead at the scene.