Everybody wants to see a loch star

ROBSON Green has only one thing to say to the Nessie doubters: "Prove it's not real."

- BY RICK FULTON

MYTHS AND LEGENDS From left, Nessie pic which turned out to be a fake, investigator Adrian Shine and Thomas Telford

The TV star has been interested in the Loch Ness Monster since the 80s and has even swum in the loch’s murky depths.

He's been back for his latest series World's Most Amazing Walks, hiking the Great Glen Way for U&Yesterday. In the episode, he teamed up with seasoned Nessie investigator Adrian Shine who led Operation Deepscan in 1987 to listen for sonar contacts.

Robson, 60, said: “I remember the Deepscan expedition like it was yesterday. They can't really prove a creature exists but they can't disprove it either.”

Only this month there was another sighting of something with a “long anaconda-type neck” behind the Spirit of Loch Ness tourist cruiser.

St Columba first claimed to have encountered a creature in AD 565 but the modern phenomenon only began in 1933 when hotel manager Aldie Mackay claimed to have seen a whale-like beast in the loch followed by Hugh Gray’s first photograph later that year.