'Alcohol addiction today is completely treatable' says Highland man on a mission
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A 4AM start at the Cromarty Bridge was the start of a 17-hour mission for an Easter Ross man on Saturday.
Within an hour, he had also crossed the Kessock Bridge.
Having previously conquered the North Coast 500 on his unicycle, Bruce Rose was saddling up again, this time aiming to cross eight of Scotland's landmark bridges, in his ongoing campaign to raise awareness of an alcohol recovery method he believes to be revolutionary.
Mr Rose, who lives outside Tain, founded Alcohol Recovery Scotland and is a strong advocate for The Sinclair Method which he says has a clinically trialled 78 per cent success rate to help those struggling with alcohol dependency to overcome and regain control of their drinking.
While unicycling across the landmark links which included the Skye, Erskine and Forth Road Bridges, he had transport between them courtesy of a van provided by Pat Munro of Alness.
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He said: "The day was a huge success. We started at 4am at Cromarty and worked out way round the 518-mile trip including the eight bridges. When we worked out the distance It was incredible to find out that it was almost to the mile exactly the same distance as the NC 500 but this time it was much nicer to be driving most of it.
"Our driver, Nigel Groves, from near Wigan was amazing and a massive thank you again to Pat Munro for the funding to hire the van for the day. We made a few useful contacts and raised £600.
"The weather stayed perfect all day and in fact at some parts was too hot. Traffic was expectedly heavy between Edinburgh and Glasgow but the drive from Glasgow to Skye Bridge was beautiful.
"The unicycling was much harder than I expected after sitting in a van for so long as the whole process took 17 hours with the unicycling in between. In Edinburgh and Glasgow the wind on the two bridges was very strong making unicycling very difficult, as was the Dornoch Bridge at the very end.
"We had a number of people turn up on the Dornoch Bridge to welcome us back which was fantastic and we were very grateful for all the support and encouragement.
"The Sinclair Method has again been raised in profile and we hope that little by little we can get the word out to let people know that alcohol addiction today is completely treatable."
His fundraising page can be found at https://gofund.me/f6a65fde
