Coastguard closure crisis: where is the authority – PRIME Minister or MCA?
An embarrassing situation has arisen which has left no one able to be certain what the current position is with the eight coastguard stations condemned to close in a cost cutting exercise by the UK...
View ArticleCoastguard row escalates after dangerous staffing level revealed
Campaigners are demanding immediate intervention from Secretary of State for Transport, Patrick McLaughlin MP into the escalating row over plans to axe half of the UK Coastguard rescue coordination...
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SNP Government to cede control of Scotland’s coasts to a call centre in...
The House of Commons Transport Select Committee this week convened a second hearing into the UK Government’s plans to ‘modernise’ the Coastguard service by closing ten coastguard stations – including...
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One for Scotland: a thought provoking incident scenario under the new minimal...
There are two major problems for Scotland in the major cuts and rearrangements to the Coastguard service proposed by the UK Government and the Maritime and Coastguard Association. They are coverage –...
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Transport Select Committee takes the pants off Dad’s Army coastguard...
This is something of an ‘Are you sitting comfortably?’ moment. What is to follow is a parliamentary select committee’s view of what could be a fully qualified and long running episode of Dad’s...
View ArticleCampaigners say democratic process at risk as Coastguard closures set to...
Following the issue of the highly critical and evidenced report from the Transport Select Committee and the inexplicable absence of response from the Scottish Government, the process of...
View ArticleStrains visible across UK coastguard service
With the Department for Transport and the Maritime and Coastal Agency [MCA] driving a ‘modernisation’ of the coastguard service around the UK that has already cost Scotland Forth Coastguard and Clyde...
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Oban to see 70 year old floatplane fly 100 year old 1,450 mile challenge...
At 10.30 on Wednesday 21st August 1913, A Sopwith floatplane [above] built for the challenge lifted off from Southampton Water – as the only entrant to make it to the start of the Daily Mail sponsored...
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