MCA pinning Coastguard Station closures on ‘banking’ local knowledge
Bizarre as it may seem, the Maritime and Coastguard Association [MCA] is hoping to justify the UK Government proposal – to which it has agreed -to close 50% of Coastguard rescue coordination centres...
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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...
View ArticleReassuring? Transcript of Shipping Minister’s appearance before Transport...
This is the transcript of the appearance on Monday 22nd October before the House of Commons Select Committee of first, Shipping Minister Stephen Hammond MP; and following him, the Chief Executive of...
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...
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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 ArticleMCA chief in Greenock to say goodbye to Clyde staff in person
Sir Alan Massey, CEO of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency, is in Greenock today, to say goodbye in person to the remaining staff at Clyde Coastguard.Despite all of the logical and operational gaps in...
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 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...
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