Hovertravel have suspended their cross-Solent operations this afternoon (Saturday) due to the adverse weather conditions.
Wet and windy weather is battering the Island, making for unfavourable conditions on the Solent.
As a result, all hover services between Ryde and Southsea have been cancelled.
An update is due at 19:00 this evening but there are no guarantees that services will resume at that time.
Tickets are being accepted on Wightlink’s Fastcat service in the meantime.
UPDATE @ 20:04 – Services remain suspended and will not be resuming today.
The next update will be provided by Hovertravel at 07:45 on Sunday morning.
UPDATE SUNDAY – Services have resumed as expected.
One assumes the only good news with all this unseasonal weather is that less illegals will arrive, saving thousands each day, but of course only a postponement not a return to where they belong.
Are you OK wilbur, you seem to have become so wise recently and seeing life how it is?
Good point, but to be honest with the amount who have already
arrived on our shores, the damage is already done.
So true Wilb, couldn’t agree more. Sadly the worlds impoverished since the mobile phone was made available to all, now, no longer wait for Oxfam or the UNICEF lorry or Bob Geldof, but a few clicks tells them what to do, what to say to force themselves onto other easy to fleece Countries, and the UK paying people to breed and giving a free home (eventually) with a good income for adding more burdens to our small island is a dream come true to them and worth any risk in getting here.
We need to end the gravy train to such and dna swab and return to their place of birth. NOT coincidence we are all getting poorer and have fewer homes SINCE masse immigration. SEE it how it is.
Heaven forbid anyone from the uk would go to other countries and ruin their way of life. Past, present and future
Almost all people who leave the UK to live abroad do so taking the funds to buy or rent a home, they take pensions, and they take skills to aid the impoverished third world.
Those coming here illegally are CRIMINALS from the get-go as they clearly don’t care about breaking the law to enter a country illegally. They come with nothing so WE, not HMG by WE all have to then provide them, and their numerous offspring with EVERYTHING they soon have.
Big difference IF you just TRY thinking how it REALLY is, not how the BBC want dim-wits to ‘see it’, as they live miles away from the misery they happily inflict on hard working British people.
Why we left the IOW: Mentalities like yours.
I assume you are now happy in S.London or another diversity enrichened area, nice to see you still read the Echo and the comments from those who DO live here.
I am pleased your thinking sort have left, and you are happy to leave so a win-win for us all.
Check the locks at night carefully and stay safe.
Quite agree Betty these islanders are mostly morons
The reason they come to the UK is because we have destroyed their own countries libiya,Iraq Afghanistan did Tony Blair think they would stay after we’d wrecked their homes and killed their leaders ?
You silly little person. These people aren’t coming because ‘we’ bombed their land and killed their leaders.
The Germans, French, Romans destroyed our homes and the latter two killed our leaders, but we didn’t all run away and leave the elderly and weak to fend for themselves.
These are just chancers who have access to mobile phones and internet so can ‘source’ how to ‘get into’ other countries, it will have sites which tell them how to do so, what to ‘say’ to get accepted etc.
Just people bettering their lot in life YET at all of our expense and demise.
THINK you silly little person instead of relying on the BBC for brainwashing tosh
Ha ha I see you belive all the brainwashing you fool get back in your box please
I should think so to.
Who wants to travel across the Solent in such conditions on an Hovercraft.
Car Ferries are much safer in such conditions.
Why is it always “news” when the hovercraft service is suspended?