Isles FM is hosting a live discussion on Friday, 26th June. The topic is Caledonian MacBrayne’s plan to introduce Sunday ferries on the route to Stornoway. The discussion will be at the Bridge Centre in Bayhead Street, Stornoway.
The courtyard of the Bridge Centre (Thanks to ADB402004 on Flickr.com)
Why not ask a question? You may either email your question to sundayferriesdebate@isles.fm or just go along – strictly first come, first served. There are 60 seats but come early to be sure.
Enter via the archway virtually opposite the SNP office and the hall is on the right. Doors open at 4.30pm and everyone should be seated by 4.40pm.
A radio panel can be subject to change at short notice right up until the red light comes on. However, at this time, we hope to have:
* Reverend I D Campbell, church minister and LDOS branch chairman
* Angus Campbell, businessman and council leader
* John Macleod, journalist and commentator
* Mrs Mary McCormack, tour guide and former teacher
* Ian Fordham, chairman, Outer Hebrides Tourism Assoc
* Philip Mclean, architect and councillor
* Uisdean Macleod, TV operations engineer and seven-day sailings campaigner
* Mal Macleod, former lecturer and seven-day sailings campaigner
CalMac was invited. It decided that due to the ongoing consultation it could not take part.
They will be listening in Wagga Wagga. The output of Isles FM is now streamed on the internet and anyone, wherever they are, will be able to listen in. Just go to www.isles.fm and select ‘Listen Now’.
PLEASE NOTE: A student at film school will be shooting a documentary while the discussion is being broadcast.
It is simply time to get these Islands into the 21st c Frankly the church is being hippocritical. We are all just too aware of many church people availing themselves of sunday catering, and also ferry and flights.
Hi James and Ceit,
I have just prayed for you both that the Lord would take you to Himself and that one day you will see this from the view of the Christian.
God bless
I await with bated breath to see if the lord – George Foulkes or Lord Carloway? – smites yon ferry. Though, he may go for the Saturday Sabbath.
slàinte mhath.
I’ll begin today with a quotation from an article by the writer, Martin Amis in a recent issue of the ‘Guardian’. He writes:
‘After President Carter’s “fiasco in the desert”, the failed Entebbe raid of April 1980, Khomeini announced that God had personally thrown sand into the helicopters’ engines, to protect the nation of Islam. To hear this kind of talk from an eight-year-old is one thing; to hear it from a bellicose head of state, on public radio, is another.’
Delete ‘belicose head of state’ and insert the words ‘church minister’.
Delete ‘public radio’ and insert the word ‘newpaper’.
That about sums it up then.