Cruise liner cancelled

THIS year’s cruise liner season will start a little later than planned after the 700-passenger vessel Discovery cancelled her first visit of the year, which was due on Sunday.

But gale force winds and huge seas in the northern North Sea made the captain rerouting her voyage from Stavanger further to the south.

The Discovery is now expected to call at Kirkwall, in Orkney, on Sunday.

However, the 169-metre vessel is still scheduled to call at Lerwick on Thursday, marking the start of what looks to become a busy cruise liner season.