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Colonsay is a roughly 10-by-2-mile island in Scotland's Inner Hebrides. It has a bookstore, two galleries, two distilleries making gin, a general store and the Colonsay House, a Georgian home owned by ...

The SNP's ferry fiasco deepened last night as shock new figures revealed more than TEN THOUSAND trips to and from Scotland’s islands had to be cancelled. An astonishing 10,809 crossings were scrapped ...

CalMac Ferries has been announced as the preferred tenderer for the next contract to operate the Clyde and Hebrides Ferry Services network by the Scottish first minister. CalMac’s bid makes almost 350 ...

Image caption, CalMac and Serco are bidding to run the Clyde and Hebrides ferry network Caledonian MacBrayne and Serco have been invited to start preparing their final bids for the new contract to run ...

The SNP's ferry fiasco deepened last night as shock new figures revealed more than TEN THOUSAND trips to and from Scotland’s islands had to be cancelled. An astonishing 10,809 crossings were scrapped ...

Firms will be invited to submit bids for the routes as a single contract. In the meantime, a new three-year interim contract will be put in place with the existing operator, CalMac. Transport Minister ...

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Mr Stewart insists the "Teckal exemption" can be used to exempt CalMac from this tendering process. He says Labour wants to stop the tendering process dead in its tracks and award CalMac the contracts ...