behaved, i have to say, in the best manner that we would expect leaders of a company of that kind of status and importance to behave. i know there are strong conversations around going to the department of transport and the company itself and indeed the company s owners, to try and sort this mess out. joining me now is sky news katie barnfield. some people will say this was only a matter of timing, and he sacked 800 staff and they have been with p & o over 20 years and tried to hire staff with little to no experience. and we are just a week on from that highly controversial decision by p & o to sack those 800 workers and indeed concerns were raised at the time, would the chief agency staff that they re bringing in replace these workers have the required experience and will they get trained up and quick enough to operate these routes safely. we are now hearing of course the ferry which is called the european causeway has been detained by the maritime coast guard agency, in northern
against p & o s leadership. the prime minister of course has already joined calls for p & o chief executive to resign. but of course, the detention of a ship now on safety grounds is only going to pile on further government pressure on the government to do more to intervene. katie barnfield, thank you. now, the drummer of the american rock band foo fighters taylor hawkins has died at the age of 50. announcing the band was devastated and saying hawkins musical spirit and infectious laster will live on with all of us forever, and oddly found in his hotel room in colombia with the world tour set to include the u.k. this summer.
sort the mess out. joining me now is katie barnfield. and as you can see, he labeleded it as a mess. and some people could say that we could see it coming, the result of sacking so many people on the spot and then trying to quickly train new ones in such a short space of time. absolutely. just a week after that hugely controversial decision by p&o ferries to sack those 800 workers on the spot, this has happened. and at the time they were warned about safety concerns, there were issues raised about whether these new cheaper agency staff that they were bringing on board to replace these workers would actually have the required training and experience to run the route safely. and now the maritime and coast guard agency saying that is one of the key issues behind the detention of this ship, problems with crew training. so exactly the sort of issues that were raised at the time. so this slip is called the