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Ardmore Peninsula, Sutherland (Mail Deliveries)

: It might help the Minister to know what the craic, as they call it, is in Kinlochbervie. All the other postmen were issued with high-quality mountain boots to enable them to go along the track. The casual postman, who as the Minister says was a mountaineer, had not been issued with those boots. The view is that he reported the accident in the hope that he would be issued with a good set of boots.