FOR centuries tourists have been flocking "over the sea to Skye" but locals are fed up because the island gets too crowded with the influx of cruise ships and tourists and their cars.

Locals are also annoyed at the lack of parking, the crowds and especially the destruction of the natural landscape.

They are further annoyed that tourists and those from the cruise ships spend next to nothing during their quick tour of the island.

A Scottish Government spokesman said that £6 million would be invested to help ensure the facilities for tourists are in place.

Well, can the Scottish Government please ensure that a tourist tax is introduced for every miserly tourist and every miserly cruise ship tourist so that there is a return on the taxpayers' £6 million?

Clark Cross,

138 Springfield Road, Linlithgow.