Police have been granted more time to question the captain of a container ship which crashed into a US oil tanker in the North Sea. The 59-year-old Russian captain of Solong, which struck US ...

Two vessels involved in a North Sea collision that triggered a huge explosion “appear to be relatively stable” and the environmental impact “mercifully small”, a transport minister has said.

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A senior cabinet minister has affirmed that Darlington's Economic Campus is an "important" site weeks after it was revealed the Chancellor has spent just two working days there since the general ...

A fire on an oil tanker involved in a crash in the North Sea has gone out, several days after the collision. Container ship Solong struck the Stena Immaculate off the east coast of Yorkshire on ...

Video footage has revealed the moment a container ship ploughed into a US oil tanker in the North Sea, causing a huge explosion. Solong struck the Stena Immaculate off the east coast of Yorkshire ...

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There are no containers of sodium cyanide onboard a ship involved in a crash in the North Sea, its owner said. Shipping company Ernst Russ said Solong has empty containers previously used to ...

A maritime expert said “human factors” play a major role in most collisions similar to the North Sea crash between a cargo ship and a tanker. Dr Seyedvahid Vakili, of the University of ...

Fires aboard a cargo ship and a tanker which collided in the North Sea off the East Yorkshire coast have continued to burn overnight. Coastguard aircraft were monitoring the situation with the ...