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The Future of Cape Wrath, it's in our hands

In the first of our new monthly Viewpoint columns, outdoors writer, broadcaster and mountain walker, Cameron McNeish discusses the future of Cape Wrath. “THE proposed sale of 58 acres around the Cape Wrath Lighthouse to the Ministry of Defence doesn’t appear to have stirred the Scottish hill-going public very much. The MoD already own much of The Parph, the area known as the Cape Wrath peninsula, but at the moment the most north-western point, containing the lighthouse and associated buildings, is owned by the Northern Lighthouse Board. The local Durness Development Group, who has registered an interest in buying the

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