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Russell launches another push on threatened Clyde and Forth coastguard...
Clyde Coastguard station, threatened with closure in 8 days time on 30th September 2011 – alongside its peer on the Forth. This is planned as part spending cuts decided by a metropolitan administration...
View ArticleThe coming picture: Clyde & Forth Coastguard stations FIRST to close
Mike Penning , Conservative Shipping Minister in the current Westminster coalition government, announced today that he is indeed to close both the Clyde and Forth Coastguard Stations.Of the former 18...
View ArticleJackie Baille adopts cross-party support for Scottish Government to move on...
For Argyll has published on the National Coastguard SOS Campaign’s successful petition to the Welsh Assembly.The Assembly’s Petitions Committee consequently recommended to the Welsh Assembly that it...
View ArticleLabour calls for answers from Government on CalMac and future of Clyde and...
Scottish Labour has called for an urgent ministerial statement this week on recent developments within ‘Caledonian MacBrayne’ and its associated companies.This follows three matters which the Labour...
View ArticleConcerns mount as UK coastguard closures begin – with Forth Coastguard
Despite overwhelming opposition, the UK Government will today begin the closure of Coastguard rescue coordination centres. The first station to close will be Forth Coastguard.Dennis O’Connor of the...
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...
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...
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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 –...
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 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 ArticleConcerns over coordination of rescue of distressed Loch Fyne kayakers
[Updated below] This is the most sensitive possible matter for all concerned, with the loss of a young man to his family and friends in the sea kayaking incident on Loch Fyne on Sunday morning, 25th...
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 ArticleConundrums – or not – in the death of Clyde Coastguard
The National Coastguard SOS campaign and Stuart McMillan, West Scotland MSP, are amongst those who have expressed their anger at yesterday’s closure of Clyde Coastguard.The coastguard campaigners have...
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 ArticleMcMillan expresses concerns on Coastguard issue
Inverclyde’s SNP MSP, Stuart McMillan, has today (31st May) commented on reports in the Press and Journal newspaper, reporting that a Freedom of Information request has shown that Stornoway and Belfast...
View ArticleCoastguard understaffing issue even more serious than thought
A Freedom of Information from a national newspaper has revealed that Aberdeen Coastguard has been 33.3% understaffed for a year – from April 2012 to March 2013.It should have an establishment of 36...
View ArticleNational Coastguard SOS Campaign angered by MCA insistence on station closure...
Opponents of Government plans to close half of the UK’s Coastguard rescue coordination centres have today criticised the Maritime & Coastguard Agency (MCA) after their recent announcement which...
View ArticleStaff shortages in new model coastguard service raise safety issues
The Coastguard SOS campaign group continues to raise concern about risks to sea safety and environmental protection resulting from substantial understaffing in the national coastguard service. This is...
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