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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 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...
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 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...
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 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...
View ArticleOperational concerns as Police Scotland and Scottish Fire & Rescue go for...
Scotland and the UK is still caught in the aftermath of a prematurely introduced and ill-considered halving of the coastguard service’s Maritime Rescue Coordination Centres [MRCCs] around the UK...
View ArticleSummer 2014 realised fears about coastguard numbers in new service
[Updated below on Belfast Coastguard situation] The rash concept of radical cost cutting to ‘modernise’ the United Kingdom coastguard service and its clumsy introduction has led to the devastation of...
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