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Torrey Canyon legacy still haunts Guernsey

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The island of Guernsey is still marred by a lake of oil that left behind from the Torrey Canyon tanker disaster that ran aground off the south west coast of England in 1967.

BBC's correspondent Mike Williams went to see how efforts are finally being made to tackle the remains of that large-scale oil disaster.


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