Keith Brown looking at option to nationalise Scotland’s rail services?
Before the Union’s get too happy about today’s press reports on this one, it is no more than part of the rampant political opportunism that is derailing the gravity and the dignity of the independence...
View ArticleTransport Minister’s token meeting on Coastguard closures
Transport Minister Keith Brown has found it incumbent upon him to meet the UK’s new and underinformed junior Transport Minister to discuss the proposed closure of Clyde Coastguard.Forth Coastguard was...
View ArticleJulian Penney: The urgency in the Clyde Coastguard situation
For Argyll learned yesterday evening that the aerials and transmitting masts from Clyde Coastguard will start to be transferred to Belfast and Stornoway as soon as this Monday 5th November, with those...
View ArticleCampaign welcomes Scottish Affairs Committee report on HM Coastguard in Scotland
Coastguard campaigners have welcomed the publishing of a report by the Westminster Scottish Affairs Committee on the future of HM Coastguard in Scotland.The Committee of MPs say that the loss of local...
View ArticleBBC has some problems in Scotland
Today’s BBC webpage for Scotland carried a story on the concerns expressed by Westminster’s Scottish Affairs Committee on the Department for Transport’s plans to close down ten coastguard stations...
View ArticleClyde Coastguard effectively closed as from this evening
The National Coastguard SOS campaign has let us know that, effective as of this evening, Clyde Coastguard will to all intents and purposes be closed, with Belfast and Stornoway taking responsibility...
View ArticleRMT says UK Government has still not signed off on Virgin contract extension...
The rail union, RMT, has today warned that the West Coast Main Line franchise remains in a shambles, with the UK Government failing to sign off the extension of the current Virgin contract – just over...
View ArticleVirgin to give to charity any profit on west coast mainline contract extension
Virgin may make millions of pounds profit from the 23 month extension of their contract for the west coast mainline route.The company has now said that it will give any profit to charity.Why not...
View ArticleTransport Select Committee on its report on UK coastguard situation – and...
In issuing its report today [11th December] on the Department for Transport’s plans to modernise the coastguard service, the House of Commons Transport Select Committee, in its press release, headlines...
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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 ArticleCoastguard campaign calls for immediate government action on Transport Select...
After the long anticipated publishing this week of the damning report of the Transport Select Committee into UK Coastguard rescue coordination centre closures,the big question is ‘What happens...
View ArticleTransport Select Committee report on Coastguard reorganisation: Daily Gem No 2
The Transport Select Committee report on the Department for Transport’s proposals to modernise HM Coastguard service, notes that the requirement for coastguards to be tested at regular intervals on...
View ArticleTransport Select Committee report on Coastguard reorganisation: Daily Gem No 4
The stuff of satire – from the written evidence to the committee of Liverpool Coastguard PCS Union members.’27. Warship analogy ‘The CEO (being a Second Sea Lord) tells us that he is taking the MCA on...
View ArticleMCA Chief on coastguard service modernisation
In a conversation earlier today, Sir Alan Massey, CEO of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency [MCA] talked about some of the key issues around what has become a controversial modernisation of the...
View ArticleRIP Clyde Coastguard
Today Clyde Coastguard ceases to exist in a move described by the Transport Select Committee as financially driven and that has seen first Forth Coastguard and now Clyde closed for good.This has...
View ArticleDVLA staff in one day strike over office closures
Staff at the 39 regional offices of the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) are on a one day strike today in protest at the UK Department for Transport’s plans to close them, centralising the...
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For Argyll end of year nominations 2012: a baker’s dozen
Farewell of the year, public service – Clyde Coastguard: We’re starting with this one because it affects Argyll and the rest of a massive sea area of Scotland’s west coast, from the Mull of Galloway,...
View ArticleMSP gets response from an astray Shipping Minister on the Loch Fyne kayak...
West Scotland MSP, Stuart McMillan, wrote to the new UK Transport Secretary, Patrick McLoughlin MP, on 27th November 2012 to ask for details of the coastguard process handling the incident at Fionn...
View ArticleAfter Clyde closure, staff losses drive Yarmouth coastguard to daylight ops only
Campaigners who oppose the closure of UK stations have now renewed calls for Government plans to be scrapped before a tragedy occurs.This follows the recent announcements that the Yarmouth Coastguard...
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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