it s the first time it has done this on the busiest route since it sacked 800 staff in march and replaced them with cheaper agency workers. its vessel, the spirit of britain, has been cleared to sail after it was detained by the maritime and coastguard agency. earlier, i spoke with our business correspondant simon browning. it s now more than five weeks since p&o sacked 800 workers, quite ruthlessly, to replace them with cheaper staff. two p&o ferries were detained. one of them was cleared to sail at the end of last week, on friday, by the maritime and coastguard agency. checking the p&o website this morning, which i have been doing pretty religiously to see when those sailings are going to start again, they are starting tomorrow morning, first sailing at 4:25am. all of the tickets for tomorrow are already sold out, so you can t actually get on a p&o ferry now until tuesday. it is significant because the company has had a tough time in the last couple of weeks reputationally after sack