Cuts
HM Coastguard, Bridlington YO15
Sector: Fire and coastguard
The government is currently consulting on proposals to close ten of the country’s eighteen coastguard stations. The Humber Maritime Rescue Co-ordination Centre, based in Bridlington, is one of five nationwide that will remain open but have its hours slashed. Under the proposals the station, which covers Scarborough, will only operate from 9am to 7pm, and two-thirds of coastguards will be axed.
Responsibility for co-ordinating night rescues would pass to one of only three 24 hour stations, hundreds of miles away in Aberdeen, Dover or Southampton.
- Further info: www.scarborougheveningnews.co.uk/news/local/coastguard_fears_over_service_cuts_1_2874891
- Posted by: Emma at 11:04pm on 2 February 2011
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