Demolition work begins on the Highland retreat once owned by Jimmy Savile<br /><br />Demolition work is under way at the Glen Coe cottage that was once owned by Jimmy Savile.<br /><br />Savile, who was uncovered as one Britain’s most prolific sex offenders after his death in 2011, owned Allt-na-Reigh cottage from 1998.<br /><br />An outbuilding at the property caught fire last month, leading to the closure of the A82.<br /><br />Highland Council has previously given permission for the site to be demolished and replaced with a new home.<br /><br />The site lay abandoned for years and has been vandalised repeatedly since Savile’s death and his exposure as a prolific sex offender.<br /><br />The proposed redevelopment includes honouring another of the cottage's former owners - the celebrated Scottish climber and inventor Dr Hamish MacInnes.<br /><br />Dr MacInnes, who died in 2020, invented ice axes and also a stretcher that is used by mountain rescue teams all over the world.<br /><br />The outbuildings where the climber worked on his creations are to be redeveloped as an ancillary dwelling and named Hamish House.<br /><br />The property has a long history and over the years it served as a house on a croft and as a road workers' cottage
