Fires put out on crash ship amid plastics spill clean-up

FIRES have been put out on the container ship that collided with a fuel tanker 12 miles off the Yorkshire coast in the North Sea.

- DAVE HIGGENS

But there are concerns about the effect on wildlife of plastic pellets that were released from the Solong.

Operations are under way to clean up pellets on beaches in Norfolk and areas around The Wash.

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