HD scraps Cherbourg

HD FERRIES has cancelled its Cherbourg service after just one sailing. Only about 10 people were booked to travel on Friday.

It has replaced it with a direct service to St Malo. The company's Phil Jones said it realised it would need to launch a full marketing campaign for the route to be successful.

'We have stopped serving Cherbourg because we had so few bookings,' he said. 'We have had very few advanced bookings, certainly far fewer than we had predicted.' He said the lack of interest indicated that people wanted to go to St Malo instead.