Scoot Ferries launches new Isle of Wight to Portsmouth foot passenger service

Scoot Ferries runs the new service from Trinity Landing in Cowes to Portsmouth's Millennium Pontoon

A new foot passenger service between the Isle of Wight and Portsmouth has been launched.

Island based-firm Scoot Ferries started running a service between Yarmouth on the island and Lymington in the New Forest in September.

Now it has started a second service from Trinity Landing in Cowes to Portsmouth's Millennium Pontoon.

Chief executive Zoë Ombler said the new service was launching two years ahead of schedule.

A service between Cowes and Hamble is also due to start in 2016.

There is also a shuttle between Town Quay, Cowes and East Cowes, giving passengers an option to use the chain ferry service, which has been running since 1859.

Protests about the introduction of a charge were staged at the end of last year, but passengers will have to pay up to 70p for a return journey from 20 July.