The crew of a car carrier stranded next to a busy shipping lane “showed great skill” after grounding the ship deliberately to prevent it from capsizing, its owner has said.

A trapped piece of drill pipe prevented a fail-safe device from stopping last year's massive BP Gulf oil spill, a US government investigation has found.

A MAJOR study to reveal the rate of variant Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease (vCJD) infection through consumption of BSE-infected meat has been commissioned by the Blood Bank.