Momentum Steps Up on Coastguard Campaign  

North Down's MP, Lady Hermon, today welcomed a cross-party delegation of MPs to the Coastguard headquarters in Bangor as part of her campaign to save Northern Ireland's only remaining Coastguard Centre. The Department for Transport is currently consulting on its proposals for the modernisation of Coastguard services, which could see Bangor losing out to the Coastguard Centre in Liverpool. Speaking from Bregenz House, the home of N. Ireland's Coastguard, at the conclusion of the visit, Lady Hermon said: “I greatly appreciated the support today (Monday) of other MPs - Jim Shannon of the DUP, Margaret Ritchie, Leader of the SDLP, and Naomi Long of the Alliance Party – when we visited Northern Ireland's only remaining Coastguard Centre at Bregenz House in Bangor. The meeting with Coastguard staff and a senior representative of the Maritime & Coastguard Agency...