Weather hinders tanker spill clean-up

Picturesque coastal areas hit by the Prestige oil tanker spill were facing a fresh deluge of sludge today, with fierce winds blowing slicks in from the Atlantic.

Winds gusting up to 66mph were pushing what Spaniards call a “black tide” towards more of the shellfish-raising stretch of the country’s north-west Galicia region, which has a €345 million-a-year fish and seafood industry.