There has been outrage over potential legal action against soldiers for events linked to the Troubles.

A tanker which ran aground on New Year's Day causing 150 villagers to be evacuated from their homes has been successfully re-floated.

A 3,000-tonne petrol tanker is to be towed to Falmouth in Cornwall once it has been freed from rocks where it was grounded eight days ago, the British Maritime and Coastguard Agency said today.

Fuel oil leaking from an empty 3,000 tonne petrol tanker grounded on the east Cornwall coast has formed a kilometre long film.