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Extract from the Kyleakin and Kylerhea Travel Guides:
Sir Iain Noble, an Edinburgh merchant banker and untiring Gaelic enthusiast, is one of the leading advocates of (and investors in) the privately financed
Skye Bridge
, which now links the tidy hamlet of
KYLEAKIN
(pronounced "ka-LA-kin") with the Kyle of Lochalsh, just half a mile away on the mainland. The well-orchestrated campaign by SKAT (Skye and Kyle Against Tolls), 350 of whose members have refused to pay the tolls, provides fierce opposition to the current system and may yet succeed in either reducing or abolishing the fee. Strictly speaking there are, in fact, two bridges which rest on an island in th...
read the whole Kyleakin and Kylerhea Travel Guides...
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