SCOTLAND S crisis hit lifeline ferry network has come under fresh fire after a new series of breakdowns and setbacks with five of its fleet leading to service cancellations and restrictions as new pressure is put on ministers to take urgent action. The Herald can reveal that a temporary replacement freight ferry for the Ullapool-Stornoway route - considered too small because it only had space for four lorries - has itself had to be replaced leading to three days of sailing cancellations. One disgusted Lewis haulier DR Macleod told the Herald that on Friday it had 15 trailers of goods including fresh produce like fish and other food products backed up on Stornoway because of the failure and has condemned the services as shockingly inadequate .
Ferguson Marine woe: Scots ministers face official sanctions over failure to submit first financial accounts on time
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Ferguson Marine woe: Scots ministers face official sanctions over failure to submit first financial accounts on time MINISTERS face an official sanction after the nationalised shipyard company at the centre of Scotland s ferry building fiasco failed to file four sets of financial accounts on time, the Herald can reveal. The results for Ferguson Marine, which controls the last civilian shipyard on the Clyde were submitted after the March 31 deadline set by Companies House. The accounts of three other allied companies also failed to meet the deadline.
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PREMIUM National scandal : Four lifeline Scots ferries break down in three weeks and replacement can only take four lorries SCOTLAND S lifeline ferry network is in crisis ahead of the easing of lockdown with four vessels breaking down in the space of three weeks and a replacement freight service that can only take four lorries, the Herald can reveal. Campaigners have have said that heads should already have rolled over the state of the nation s ferry services describing it as a national scandal . CalMac s largest ferry MV Loch Seaforth has been taken off the Ullapool-Stornoway route to be taken into dry dock for major engine repairs.