French sub seals holes on sunken oil tanker Prestige

FIVE holes in the sunken and leaking oil tanker Prestige have been plugged

Strong winds were also pushing a huge slick from the submerged wreck far enough from land to give exhausted fishermen a breather.

But Deputy Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said the submarine Nautile has detected new cracks in the vessel on the Atlantic seabed which he called small but declined to describe in detail.