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A contract for two desperately needed ferries to serve some of Scotland’s most remote communities is now running over 4 years late and the cost has more than doubled from £97m to over £200m.

A Scottish parliamentary inquiry called it a 'catastrophic failure of management'.

In 2015 a businessman with links to SNP ministers rescued the failing Ferguson’s yard from bankruptcy and a year later secured the contract for the ferries.

In 2019 with the ferries only partly built the shipyard went bankrupt again.

The Scottish government has stepped in to nationalise the yard, and says the ferries will be delivered.

But questions remain about how the contract was awarded and what went wrong.

David Grossman reports.