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THE fate of the tiny island of Gruinard, just off the Scottish mainland between Ullapool and Gairloch in the Highlands, has long been an interest of mine. During the Second World War it was the site of an anthrax test on sheep to investigate the possibility of using the bacterium as a biological weapon. So I read with interest a recent letter in the London Review of Books (24 January, p 4), from Bill Gilmour of Ullapool. In it he claims that an outbreak of anthrax occurred on the mainland in 1943 that “almost killed off a good part of…