Tributes were paid to Scotland's former first minister Alex Salmond at a funeral service on Tuesday following his sudden death in Macedonia earlier this month. The former SNP leader, who went on to set up the Alba Party, had been speaking at a conference when he suffered a heart attack. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00Mr. Sharmand, he was just like one of us in the village. He always just lived his life
00:29quietly and everybody respected him and just left him to get on with his life. I mean I
00:34worked in a shop previously just across the bridge there and he just came in and he always
00:38had a laugh and you know he was just so down to earth.
00:45He was just an amazing person, absolutely.
00:47And that's the nicest thing isn't it, so many people have mentioned that the film was a
00:52Oh absolutely, there was no, he was just one of us when he was here and he truly was a lovely man.