Scottish woman shopping for turkey still

A wife who went to the shops

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hasn't made it home after being cut off by heavy snow.

Kay Ure, 54, left her house in the remote Scottish

Highlands 15 days ago on a shopping trip to Inverness.

But thick snow and blocked roads have left it

impossible for her to return to husband John and the

lighthouse keeper's cottage they share in Cape Wrath,

Sutherland, at Britain's north-western tip.
The cafe owner is stranded 11 miles away in Durness

where she is staying in a friend's caravan.

But Mrs Ure hasn't #x given up on the idea

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more than 30 years.

She told the Sunday Post newspaper: "I think it will

be a few days yet as the road from our home is

dangerous.

"I'm looking forward to a belated Christmas dinner but

it might be Burns' Night (January 25) before I get to

eat it."

The couple run a cliff-top cafe in one of Britain's

most isolated spots. Mrs Ure left for Inverness on an

organised shopping excursion on December 19.

Her husband drove her the 11 miles to a jetty where

their boat is moored and from there they crossed the

Kyle of Durness where she was picked up by a minibus,

according to the newspaper.

On her return to #x Durness the heavy snow

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and Mr Ure, 57, was unable to make the drive to pick

her up.