Down to the sea in buses
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SEALINK has solved the Christmas-cracker-type riddle of how to travel nine miles in a stationary bus. MV Freshwater, which normally plies between Lymington and Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, but was temporarily transferred to the PortsmouthFishbourne ferry, was short of cabin accommodation for 110 passengers so Sealink thoughtfully hired two buses for use as shelters.
While ferry passengers were travelling in comparative warmth, a 13-year-old girl was being left out in the cold in Portsmouth. Although she apparently attended Church of England services, she had been christened in the Church of Scotland, so Hampshire Education Committee refused here bus pass for a journey of more than five miles to St Luke's Church of England School at Portsmouth.
Carrying discrimination to the ultimate absurdity, Sealink might have denied shelter in the buses to anyone who had ever sailed in a Townsend-Thoresen ferry.