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I know it must be difficult for all the staff in a newsroom to get a message, but could I point out that Cove is not ‘in’ Rosneath – it’s one of the villages on the Rosneath `Peninsula. I think this is the third time recently that such an error, indicative of a lack of knowledge of the area, has been highlighted.
Oh, and by the way – why is this site such a cheerleader for Clydelink? The company’s attitude to the problems faced by is customers is to dismiss them as ‘not like famine in Ethiopia (see the Herald story http://www.heraldscotland.com/mobile/news/transport/ferry-safety-fears-amid-claims-crew-lack-training.17680761)
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Innuendo is a legal term relating to defamation. Look it up. And the issue isn’t your view but how a statement would lower a member of the public’s opinion about the person referred to. So if many find it distasteful it is defamatory. How good is your insurance cover against defamation actions nowadays? - SNP departures from administration – was money a factor?
We = I (Linda)
Extract = not the entire email
Innuendo about financial motives = very clear defamation, as with the Cowal Courier’s deplorable headline about George Freeman this morning - Castle Woods: Osborne Interiors home free in Helensburgh Advertiser
The Dances deserve to be exposed and good luck with this. They’re not involved with another potential but it’s shocking enough, especiallly when you know about the applicants – see some comments here http://bit.ly/Pt0Ro2 - Herald promotes SPT Daytripper journey via Helensburgh ferry?
Dear dear… just because I point out an error, Mr Wakeham, I must be a member of the forces of evil. I’m not. I’m one of the people who use this ferry service, are furious with SPT and baffled by some of the apparent support for Clydelink which has appeared on this site. And I was on the pier that day.
Rather than picking holes in other people’s stories, perhaps the ‘newsrooom’ could do something such as work out the percentage of scheduled journeys since April 1 which have not taken place under the terms of the contract – a 60-seater vessel. So the current 12-seat joke should be ignored, as should the buses, the journeys cancelled because of weather (in April), breakdowns/boat reliability (two separate occasions, including the current one) and the MCA’s instruction that it should not sail for safety reasons. Try working out that little sum, and the facts will tell the story.
The headline, by the way, was in error because ‘Rosneath residents’ means people who live in that village, not the peninsula of the same name.
Oh, and try searching on Youtube for Island Princess and Gourock. - Herald promotes SPT Daytripper journey via Helensburgh ferry?
Gosh, spotted only 48 hours after it appeared! Those in glass houses… cast your mind back to a headline on this site: “400 Rosneath residents protest in person on Kilcreggan Pier on SPT ferry plans”. Not the case at all, quite apart from the issue of whether it is possible to protest ‘on’ something. Some of the people protesting were from Rosneath, but most were not. A classic case of what happens if you take a headline off the shelf without knowing the area or bothering to check.
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I know it must be difficult for all the staff in a newsroom to get a message, but could I point out that Cove is not ‘in’ Rosneath – it’s one of the villages on the Rosneath `Peninsula. I think this is the third time recently that such an error, indicative of a lack of knowledge of the area, has been highlighted.
Oh, and by the way – why is this site such a cheerleader for Clydelink? The company’s attitude to the problems faced by is customers is to dismiss them as ‘not like famine in Ethiopia (see the Herald story http://www.heraldscotland.com/mobile/news/transport/ferry-safety-fears-amid-claims-crew-lack-training.17680761)
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This seems a little fatuous. Of course we know where Cove is, what Rosneath is and that the peninsula is called the Rosneath peninsula.
We refer to the Cowal peninsula as Cowal – as does everyone else and no one in Cowal has complained (yet). Sometimes the familiar version seems more fluent – but we apologise for irritating you.
We are not a cheerleader for Clydelink. We have been critical of their shortcomings but we have not joined in their demonisation.
The principal fault here – and it is a serious one – lies with the principal in the action and that is SPT.
The management of this tender contract was ridiculous in so many ways and not remotely defensible.
But any business has the right to tender, the right to accept the award of a contract and the right to do its best then to fulfil that contract.
We fully understand and sympathise with the damaging disruption to ordered life in the peninsula and the destabilising impact of the unreliability of the Clydelink service to date.
But your argument is with SPT. Splitting your focus in hammering Clydelink is politically inept.
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