Coastguard rethink

[marisca]

Apparently the Condems have actually noticed the reaction to their Coastguard proposals and another consultation process starts today http://www.dft.gov.uk/mca/mcga07-home/s ... ls2011.htm and runs until 6th October. Perhaps I haven't looked hard enough but there seems to be no mention of ETVs. Is their removal a done deal - at least until the inevitable environmental disaster?

[Nick]

Apparently the Condems have actually noticed the reaction to their Coastguard proposals and another consultation process starts today http://www.dft.gov.uk/mca/mcga07-home/s ... ls2011.htm and runs until 6th October. Perhaps I haven't looked hard enough but there seems to be no mention of ETVs. Is their removal a done deal - at least until the inevitable environmental disaster?

Stornoway Gazette this week says both Stornoway and Shetland to remain as 24-hour stations. Bye bye Clyde though.

[Arghiro]

Yup, Clyde & Liverpool, probably 2 of the 3 busiest ports on the West. Must be expecting them to close down trading shortly.

[claymore]

Holyhead is to take over from Liverpool, so the news appeared to suggest.
Certainly improved communications technology will help but it all feels a bit edgy.
I suppose it will all be run from a call centre in Bombay -apologies - Mumbles, before long.

[Gardenshed]

So we can expect a nautical version of this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XED4rL9vj8

The bbc report indicates that the ETV's are gone. Anyone want to lay a bet on how long it will be before as accident shows this to be a false economy?

[marisca]

I got round to reading the Consultation Document and it does indeed mention ETVs with the promise of a government response later this year. So there is still a chance for another climb-down.
I do wish that there was evidence of operations analysis rather than money-saving in the raison d'être for the changes. I suppose we should all be grateful that S'way and Shetland may still exist, rather in the same vein as the chocolate ration in 1984 (it's a book by George Orwell).
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