 It is only accessible by boat or over a causeway road which disappears under the fast-moving tides twice a day. Drivers sometimes get cut off despite strong warnings against trying to cross at certain times. That might cause problems for Cummings – who is best known for ignoring rules and having dodgy eyesight. Due to the tides making school travel difficult, residents can send their children to Berwick's posh £7,000-a-term Longridge Towers boarding school during the week for free. Cummings is famous for his poor eyesight and Covid rule-breaking ( Getty Images) The Sunday Mirror understands Cummings bought his pad over the summer. 'He's here all the time,' one local told us. 'But he's not moved in yet because he's still gutting the place.' Many properties on the island are holiday lets or second homes. Lindisfarne is considered the birthplace of Christianity in England, with Celtic Christian monks said to have creat){kind=link}
The disgraced former Downing Street bigwig is renovating a £161,000 cottage on the tourist hotspot Lindisfarne
Dominic Cummings has bought a home on Holy Island â sparking anger among its 147 inhabitants.
The disgraced former bigwig is renovating a £161,000 cottage on tourist hotspot Lindisfarne, off Northumberland.
Cummings, infamous for breaking lockdown rules while advising then-PM Boris Johnson, has not been met with a warm welcome.
One resident said they were “outraged” to have the former Downing Street guru for a neighbour.