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Saturday, 21st November 2009

2002 Galician oil spill

Spain sues ABS over oil tanker SPAIN has filed a $5 billion (£3 billion) law suit against the American Bureau of Shipping, alleging the maritime group failed to ensure that the oil tanker Prestige was seaworthy.

Turning on the black tide GALICIA is furious at Spanish government inaction since the Prestige oil spill. Locals are taking matters into their own hands, and nationalist fervour is rising.

Oily future THOUSANDS more tonnes of fuel will eventually spill from the wreck of the oil tanker Prestige which sank off the Spanish coast, according to a report published yesterday.

Coast of Death lives up to its name SINCE the age of ten, Candido Marcos de Santiago has risked his life fishing for percebes, or goose barnacles, on the Costa da Morte - the Coast of Death.

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