USING buckets to clear the remaining oil from the Torrey Canyon quarry has proved the best solution because it minimised the amount of water extracted with oil, Public Service has said.  

OIL in the Torrey Canyon quarry has claimed its latest bird victim, a duck, just after the 44th anniversary of the tanker disaster.

A MAN whose dog got through a hole in a fence and fell into an oil-filled quarry is warning the same could have happened to a child.

THE ‘Torrey Canyon’ quarry is again being cleaned up by Public Services.

It was the environmental disaster that had been dreaded ever since tankers began carrying thousands of tons of oil around our oceans. Forty years ago, in 1967, Guernsey's west coast hummed with the pungent smell of oil from the stricken Torrey Canyon. Chris Morvan takes us through the unfolding of a drama that could be repeated at any time