Nick Gold, lawyer, banker and entrepreneur, who owned the ex Cobra Mist/BBC World Service site, lawyer, banker and entrepreneur, died of pneumonia and liver failure age 74 January 2nd. The Times had a one page obituary January 8th.

He first bought the lighthouse for £2000 in 2014, encouraged the villagers and schools to visit it, organised picnics and evening concerts. This hadn't been the case before.

"He then learnt that Babcock International, the defence contractor, was interested in selling another building on the Ness — Cobra Mist, an over-the-horizon radar station ringed by masts and floodlights built by the US government in 1967 to monitor Soviet missile launches during the Cold War.
The vast, grey, windowless oblong edifice was flooded because the National Trust had let the Ness’s sea defences fail. It came with cavernous tool shops filled with all manner of gadgets and gizmos, rooms within rooms to thwart electronic eavesdroppers, banks of transmitters, assorted vehicles and a landing craft, but Babcock virtually paid him to take it off their hands. “It’s a folly of grandiose proportions but I like eccentric buildings,” Gold explained to bemused friends.
As with the lighthouse, he loved showing visitors around Cobra Mist, but it also became — rather unexpectedly — the best investment he had ever made. Radio Caroline transmits from it. A super-fast broadband operator erected a mast on the roof.
Most notably, a huge off-shore wind farm was legally required to provide nesting grounds for lesser black-backed gulls to compensate for those killed by its turbines. Thus its Swedish owners agreed an extremely lucrative long-term contract with Gold to rent 14 acres of barren land surrounding Cobra Mist. Two more wind farms are presently pursuing similar contracts "