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Sunday, 07 July 2019

BBC News

• UK plans £3m no-deal medicine transportThe deadline of 1 September set for the deal is a

ITV News

• Migrant rescue ship docks in Italian port despite banA rescue ship with 46 migrants on board has docked without incident in the Italian port of Lampedusa despite an explicit ban after declaring a state of emergency.

The Herald

• Outgoing ferry boss: Time to break up islands networkTHE business veteran who was part of the team which bought out Western Ferries 21 years ago has called for the Scottish ferry network to be split into bundles to boost competition as he steps down as chairman of the Dunoon-based firm.

The Independent

• Boat full of tourists smashes into Westminster BridgeEmergency services called out after City Cruisers vessel gets wedged under bridge

Times Online

• P&O sinks to paying just £1.83 an hour [Subscription]P&O has come bottom in a league table of ferry operators, paying its foreign workers a basic hourly rate as low as £1.83 — because the national minimum wage does not apply on the high seas.

Daily Express

• First strike capability! Royal Navy industrial action will cripple Britain’s fleetINDUSTRIAL action by merchant mariners will leave Britain’s warships stuck in port, a union warned last night.

C.N.N.

• Migrant rescue ship arrives in Italian port in defiance of SalviniThe rescue vessel Alex docked Saturday in the Italian port of Lampedusa, carrying more than 40 shipwrecked migrants despite being banned by Matteo Salvini, the country's far-right Interior Minister.