Alex Salmond welcomes new international ferry link

A BRAND new ferry link worth millions to the Scottish economy completed its maiden voyage yesterday despite the captain suffering a heart attack just minutes before departure.

Captain Antonio Arbilli suffered the attack and immediately underwent emergency surgery, leaving the Scottish Vikings first journey all at sea.

However a replacement captain, Dominico Comisso, who for legal reasons had to be Italian, was quickly located in Belgium and flown in.

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