Riddoch Questions in Stornoway
Posted: Thursday, 12 July 2007 |
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Here’s a bit of advance notice about this week's edition of Riddoch Questions on Radio Scotland...
Tomorrow Lesley Riddoch will be in the Western Isles, asking why Stornoway
¾±²õ²Ô’t making the news this week with a Sunday sailing of the Cal Mac Ferry to the mainland.
Many people involved with this week's had hoped for a one-off Sunday ferry service this year. But Cal Mac say they won’t consider that until they are asked "properly."
Is it time to hold a referendum on Lewis to see whether the majority are now in favour of Sunday sailings? Planes started flying on Sundays back in 2002, a Sunday sailing operates from Harris to the south and a recent report found that Sunday operations would provide the biggest single boost to the island's economy.
But would 7 day access destroy a way of life? And if most Lewis people don’t believe that who should act? The Council, Cal Mac, the government or the Churches?
Join Lesley on Friday from 1:15pm on . You can email your thoughts to
lesley@bbc.co.uk, or call the programme after 1:00pm on 0500 92 95 00. The text number is 80295.
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