called by islanders on South Uist over disruption to ferry services. The direct route to the mainland from the second largest island in the Outer Hebrides is currently served by a ship restricted ...

Island residents would have some 11 hours on the mainland, up from six hours 45 minutes. But Mr Robertson warned that the ferries would be “underemployed assets” unless the number of sailings ...

A mother-of-four says she was forced to travel without all of her children on an island ferry because of reduced passenger numbers. Carol-Anne Galbraith, 33, from Barra, needed to get her son Kieran, ...

The island of South Uist has been dealt a further blow after another CalMac ferry, the MV Hebrides, was detained in drydock for two more weeks due to a fault having been found with its bow visor.

The decision to take stock came as CalMac's current £975m eight-year Clyde and Hebrides Ferry ... will lead to improved ferry services that effectively support island communities.

Carol-Anne Galbraith, 33, from Barra, needed to get her son Kieran, five, from the Hebridean island to a hospital appointment in Glasgow. Barra's usual ferry, which carries 600 people, has been ...

WSF announces a new summer ferry schedule for Anacortes-San Juan Islands, effective June 15, with reservations opening April 15.

The Scottish Government has introduced free inter-island ferry travel for all island residents under the age of 22 within the Outer Hebrides, Orkney, and Shetland. These inter-island ferry services ...

There are times when the scattered mosaic of islands off the west coast ... way of hopping around the Hebrides is on a fleet of ferries as Scottish as Irn Bru, operated by Caledonian MacBrayne ...