A PENSIONER who uses a coffin as a coffee table in his lounge was visited by the police after two women saw it at his house.

Shell’s North Sea helicopter operations, which were stopped for six weeks after a crash which claimed 11 lives, were resuming today.

The funeral of one of the 11 crewmen who died when a helicopter crashed in a North Sea gas field today took place on an island off the north-west coast of Scotland.

A helicopter crash in a North Sea gas field which left eleven people dead was caused when a main rotor blade fractured, a report said today.