Anti-toll protesters to march over bridge

CALL TO ACTION AGAINST TOLL CHARGES 'TO GET INTO DEVON'

- LEE TREWHELA

PEOPLE from Cornwall will march across the Tamar Bridge later this month in protest at paying tolls to cross into Devon. A growing number of people who live in the south east of the Duchy are making a stand about paying what for many is hundreds of pounds a year to cross.

The Tamar Toll Action Group, alongside Cornish campaigning group All Under One Banner (AUOB) Kernow, has organised a "call to action" peaceful protest march across the bridge on Saturday, July 29, which also happens to be the same day as the busy Saltash Regatta on the river below.

Many of those protesting against paying a toll cite it as an unfair tax on residents of South East Cornwall, who regularly have to cross the bridge for treatment at Plymouth's Derriford Hospital, or who work on the Devon side of the Tamar.