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The Government are stepping in to give the cross-Solent operators an extra £6.5m to keep them running during Lockdown #3
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Red Funnel stopped selling food and drinks on board their ferries last year, but Wightlink had continued to keep theirs open, until now
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For months News OnTheWight’shas been pursuing the release of this info. Today our FOI-blocking challenge has been accepted
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They’re radical. If passed the MP’s ferry proposals (Nationalisation, anyone?) would have a major impact on the Isle of Wight ferries … and prices. Get up to speed by reading this News OnTheWight analysis
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Wightlink say fewer people are using the route at the weekends, as only essential travel is now allowed. Full details within
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This reader believes that much more can easily be done by the ferry companies to protect the Isle of Wight and its high percentage of older and vulnerable residents from Covid-19. He explains how here
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Isle Access has written to all the ferry companies about the new Trade In Services agreement between the UK and the EU after concerns regarding provision of ferry services for those with disabilities was raised
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Here’s Matt Smith’s letter to the MP where he lays out what he thinks could be the unintended consequence of recent law changes after Brexit that would impact people with disabilities travelling across the Solent
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The RMT say that Wightlink staff have "bent over backwards to help the company survive during this pandemic only to be treated as cannon fodder". Strike dates within
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Richard Quigley and Vix Lowthion, who have both called for nationalisation of the ferry service, respond to Bob Seely’s submission to the Gov review
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This letter writer believes that the ferry companies should have been asking the reason why passengers booked to travel with them, as well as what tier they were travelling from
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The ferry companies respond to the Isle of Wight MP and IW council leader's proposal for a review of cross-Solent transport obligations
