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P&O Ferries sacks workers and docks ships

London demo tomorrow:

This does sound new:
Organised by the International Transport Federation in London outside the offices of DP World, 16 Palace Street London SW1E 5JQ, RMT activists will be keeping up their “Fair Ferries campaign” and calling for the re-instatement of all 800 sacked seafarers.

ITF inspectors who were scheduled to investigate welfare issues at the Port of Dover earlier this week following reports of bad practices on P&O vessels.

However, they were denied access by the Port Police despite giving advanced warning of their visit.

The inspectors involved said it was an unprecedented situation and the first time they'd been blocked from investigating welfare issues in 17 years.
 
BREAKING NEWS -

A P&O ferry is currently drifting off the the coast of northern Ireland, the call went out that it's 'not under command', two tugs have been sent as well as three lifeboats, the Queen Victoria cruise ship, en route to Belfast for a refit, is also on site, along with a coastguard helicopter from Prestwick

ETA - P&O ferry European Causeway adrift off coast of Larne
 
Does this kind of thing happen fairly regularly but is just being picked up atm cause of the focus P&O have brought on themselves, or is it something unusual possibly caused by new & inexperienced crews etc?
 
It was still breaking news because there is often lag between something happening and it being reported by a mainstream news source.

The likes of twitter and various transport tracking sites have made it much easier for us to see quite low long this lag can be.

It was posted on here as BREAKING NEWS half an hour after the BBC had reported it.

Anyway, it doesn't matter whether or not it was BREAKING NEWS.

My point is that there's no benefit to anyone of it being announced as BREAKING NEWS. In the time that I was reading those unnecessary words, I could have been inventing a life saving medical treatment, or rescuing a cat.

Also, it makes it feel like we are on twitter with all its urgency to be the first amateur reporter to announce something and I'm not the only one getting fed up with threads here turning into twitter feeds.
 
It was posted on here as BREAKING NEWS half an hour after the BBC had reported it.

Anyway, it doesn't matter whether or not it was BREAKING NEWS.

My point is that there's no benefit to anyone of it being announced as BREAKING NEWS. In the time that I was reading those unnecessary words, I could have been inventing a life saving medical treatment, or rescuing a cat.

Also, it makes it feel like we are on twitter with all its urgency to be the first amateur reporter to announce something and I'm not the only one getting fed up with threads here turning into twitter feeds.
Good grief, you're tedious.
 
It was posted on here as BREAKING NEWS half an hour after the BBC had reported it.

Anyway, it doesn't matter whether or not it was BREAKING NEWS.

My point is that there's no benefit to anyone of it being announced as BREAKING NEWS. In the time that I was reading those unnecessary words, I could have been inventing a life saving medical treatment, or rescuing a cat.

Also, it makes it feel like we are on twitter with all its urgency to be the first amateur reporter to announce something and I'm not the only one getting fed up with threads here turning into twitter feeds.
Keep digging...the dirt smeared look is starting to suit you.

Louis MacNeice
 
I'm still worried about that cat! Can we get some breaking news on whether teuchter's got around to rescuing it yet?
 
they're over on that other thread trying to rescue cats from their sentimental overindulgent owners, but seems to be having pretty limited success.
 
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