Isle of Wight ferry. The Red Funnel car ferry, Red Falcon,  leaves East Cowes on the Isle of Wight bound for Southampton.
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Member of parliament calls for ministers to step in to regulate or subsidise cross-Solent ferry services, following meetings at the Department for Transport. 

Calls for government intervention over 'unreliable' Isle of Wight ferries

Wightlink Ferry posted the video on it's TikTok page yesterday and it's already gained more than 43,000 likes. 

Ferry company pokes fun on TikTok with popular ASMR video

Saturday is expected to be the day most people travel abroad but thousands of rail workers are to strike, badly disrupting services.

Ferry queues and rail strikes hit start of UK summer holidays

Dorset Police and coastguard services are assisting at an incident at Banks Road in Studland, Poole. Motorists are advised to avoid the area if possible.

Ferry services suspended after car falls in water

People heading to the Port of Dover are being told to expect waiting times of 90 minutes to board cross-Channel ferries.

Port of Dover ferry passengers report three hour queues

Workers at the company's Channel House in Dover were told on Tuesday that 60 staff will be made redundant. A former seafarer says workers will be "devastated".

Fresh sackings at P&O Ferries 'betraying workers again' one year on

Former P&O workers who were among almost 800 seafarers to suddenly lose their jobs in a mass sacking last March fear a similar scandal could happen again.

Former P&O ferry staff fear another employment scandal a year after mass sacking

Service has been suspended on the Cowes floating bridge due to essential maintenance. It's not related to the problems which have plagued the vessel.

Isle of Wight's floating bridge suspended due to essential maintenance

Red funnel ferry passengers unable to book tickets 

About 120 workers will be walking out in a dispute over pay. It means a revised timetable is running instead.

Disruption to ferry services as Red Funnel staff strike

Twenty-three failures on Spirit of Britain were found by Maritime and Coastguard Agency inspectors.

New P&O crew did not know how to use life-saving equipment, report finds

The vessel was detained by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) on April 12 after safety issues were found, but was cleared to sail last Friday.

Spirit of Britain departs Dover as P&O restart freight services 

European Causeway was held in Larne, Northern Ireland, on Friday, while Pride Of Kent was detained in Dover, Kent, on Monday.

P&O Ferries accuses Agency of 'unprecedented rigour' in detaining two ships

The £100 million Côte D'Opale is ready to set sail but just how many passengers will be travelling from Dover to Calais on the ship this summer?

Inside new £100 million ferry as operator remains optimistic about travel future

Wightlink has suspended its Portsmouth - Fishbourne route due to an "ongoing customer incident".  

Wightlink suspends Portsmouth-Fishbourne route due to "ongoing incident"

Bomb disposal teams have been called to the Port of Dover after a 'suspicious package' was found on board a ferry

Meridian Ferry

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