“IT’S as safe as Dawn dishwashing liquid.” That’s what Jamie Griffin says the BP man told her about the smelly, rainbow-streaked gunk coating the floor of the “floating hotel” where Griffin was feeding hundreds of cleanup workers during the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.

PROPOSALS for the first EU-wide laws on oil platform safety and standards are likely early next year, the European Commission said yesterday.

Proposals for the first EU-wide laws on oil platform safety and standards are likely early next year, the European Commission said today.

THE tax take continued to slump by €1.4bn in the first five months of the year, but new Exchequer figures show the situation is beginning to stabilise.

US FEDERAL authorities have opened criminal and civil investigations into the BP oil spill disaster.