‘We feel stranded, marooned, abandoned’: Arran islanders forced to leave because ferry service is so bad

‘We feel stranded, marooned, abandoned’: Arran islanders forced to leave because ferry service is so bad

Maggie McEachern has lived and worked on Arran for 24 years, raised her family there and thought she would live there forever. Today, as islanders struggle to cope with an increasingly unreliable ferry service, she is not so sure.

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