'Britain's loneliest sheep' rescued from remote shore in Scottish highlands

How is Fiona? She's absolutely fantastic. Hopefully you can see her there behind me. She's looking a lot lighter than she was yesterday. She's had the wool off her now and she's in tremendous health. Absolutely fantastic. She had a full check over with SSPCA after the rescue. And you'd almost say she's overweight in sheep terms. She's in incredible condition. Yeah, I mean, she definitely doesn't look skinny. That's for sure. Tell us about the operation because it's extraordinary to think that this sheep has been kind of on her own for two years and it took a long time, didn't it, to sort out. What did you do to get her up this cliff edge and back to safety? So essentially, when I saw the story breaking, a lady named Jill Turner was kayaking and had put this post on that then went viral. And I was reading the comments about how negative it was about the farmers not caring and, you know, making it out that it was leaving the sheep to die. And that's when I reached out to the farmer and asked for the real story of what was happening and how it was so dangerous to get the sheep up. There was a real risk to life. And I thought, what crazy people do I know that would come and take a little risk with me and see if we can rescue Fiona here and get her back up and get her somewhere safe. So I contacted Graham and initially contacted Graham and Alistair here. And then I thought we could really do a secret weapon. And that's when we got Ali here from the Isle of Lewis. He's a... Mountain goat. Mountain goat is correct. He does things like this every week, but it doesn't make the news because there's so many things like that on the Western Isles. But yeah, he was amazing. You can tell he's from the city. Yes, yes. So, Kami, you literally had to pull her up the cliff edge, did you? Yeah, so, I mean, Graham, you were there as well. Well, initially, Kami actually contacted me because he thought I might have a boat. We thought that might be the most safe way to actually extract her from where she was. But we soon realised that actually it would be safer, quicker and easier and better for Fiona, as she's now called, to take her up the hillside. And that's exactly what we did in the finish up, wasn't it? Yeah. As safely as possible. And she was... It was incredible how she actually managed the journey. We thought she would be stressed out and we thought we would worry about her safety. And clearly we did worry about her safety, but it was absolutely incredible how relaxed she was throughout the whole thing, wasn't it? Oh, yeah. We have a great little bit of footage of her nibbling grass on the way up. I've walked with sheep my entire life. My entire life, never seen anything like it. Yeah. One cool cucumber there. I mean, we were just looking at pictures of her coat before she was shorn. I mean, she had a big fleece and she's in great condition. Are you surprised by that? I'm not, because I saw the photo that was initially taken and it went viral. And, you know, I look at sheep every day of my life, so I can tell as soon as I look at a sheep if she's healthy or not. The major welfare concern for Fiona was the sheer weight of wool that was on her back. And eventually, that combined with the fact that she's actually slightly overweight herself would have an impact on her joints and her knees and she'd eventually go off her feet. There's also the concern that if she falls asleep and relaxes too much and rolls onto her back, she would get stuck and a sheep doesn't last long on its back before it essentially suffocates and dies. So while she wasn't in a concern in terms of having things to eat and drink, because there's lots of fresh water in rock pools, and she had roughly an acre of grass all to herself, the big concern was the amount of wool that was on her back. Yeah, well, she looks very happy now. She looks like she's about to fall asleep here on Sky News. Can you believe it? But tell us, I mean, she's a flock animal, of course. I'm sure she's missed her fellow sheep. What happens now? I know she's in a farm park. Is she going to be integrated back into a flock? Yeah, so initially, she'll go down to the Scone Farm Park down Dumfries, where she'll be... Initially, she'll be put into a pen by herself just as she gets used to the new surroundings, and then they'll slowly introduce her to other animals there, including the sheep. There are also donkeys and goats and all sorts of fantastic animals with great names like Fiona, and she'll become part of the family down there. So she's... Although she's had a really hard three years by herself, she's really going to be delighted, I think, with how things have turned out now for her. Do you think she's now going to be very famous? Oh... I think she already is, yeah! She's already... We didn't expect it to go like this. It's crazy. Ali... I got a message from Kami and said, yeah, I'll come and help you, and then this has just gone totally nuts. But, yeah, it's great to get her up and great to see her in such good health as well. I think the funny thing is, this started to get really big, and Kami called me and said, look, can we not just go and get it and we'll get it out of there? The farmer is desperate to get her up there, but he doesn't know what to do about it. We'll get it done. And he did mention Ali, actually. He said, we've got a secret weapon, who, again, was Ali. And Kami was just desperate. You boys have certainly helped. We have to leave it there. I'm so sorry, but thank you very much for your time. And congratulations and well done again, and we're wishing Fiona all the best as well. Kami Wilson and his team, thank you.