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BBC NEWS | Scotland | Bridge tolls set to be scrapped:

The Skye Bridge Company was subsequently set up to the collect the tolls.

Even before the bridge was built critics voiced their hostility at having to pay to cross from the mainland to the Island of Skye and vice versa.

Campaigners, led in part by activist Robbie the Pict, have continued a long-running campaign of civil disobedience ever since in an effort to bring the tolls, the highest in Europe, to an end.

Four protesters, including Robbie the Pict, were convicted of not paying the tolls and were sent to jail for refusing to pay.