A major rescue operation has been launched after a cargo vessel believed to be carrying eight people overturned off the north of Scotland.

LEADING Irish firm SSE Renewables has won a series of lucrative tidal energy contracts in north-east Scotland as part of a multi-billion euro project in a location described as “the Saudi Arabia of marine power”.

An Irish company has won exclusive rights to develop wave and tidal sites in the UK.

Two men were killed and another seriously injured today after being hit by a wave on an oil tanker.

Andrew Black reports the room is far from the opulence you might expect from royal sleeping quarters.