Environmental campaigners were tonight celebrating a legal victory in the latest stage of their battle to prevent a fleet of so-called “ghost ships” being dismantled in the UK.

A fourth “ghost ship” will have to stay offshore over the weekend after bad light prevented it from docking in England today.

THE Government claimed yesterday it was powerless to halt a fleet of toxic ghost ships from the USA passing by the Irish coast en route to a scrapyard in Britain.