Editing Benbecula (section)

===Community buy-out===
After a protracted campaign, local residents took control of parts of the island on 30 November 2006 in a community buy-out. The previous landowners, a sporting syndicate, sold the assets of the {{convert|372|km2|acre|adj=on}} estate including Benbecula, South Uist and [[Eriskay]] for £4.5 million to a community-owned organisation known as Stòras Uibhist which was set up to purchase the land and to manage it in perpetuity.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/highlands_and_islands/6195966.stm| title=Land buyout reality for islanders| work=[[BBC News]]| date=30 November 2006 | access-date=4 January 2010}}</ref><ref>[http://www.storasuibhist.com/index.php "Stòras Uibhist: Going Forward Together"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060629104706/http://www.storasuibhist.com/index.php |date=2006-06-29 }} storasuibhist.com. Retrieved 26 June 2010.</ref><ref>''The quiet revolution''. (19 January 2007) Broadford. ''West Highland Free Press''.</ref>