Villagers ‘cut off’ after bridge collapses due to adverse weather

It comes just two weeks after a series of landslips blocked the road to the south

Caroline Lewis

Villagers in the Craignish penisula in Argyll say they have been effectively cut off after the bridge at Kilmelford collapsed.

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