Iona Ballantyne and her dad Bob who survived the Piper Alpha disaster in 1988 BBC Scotland apprentice Iona Ballantyne, whose father Bob survived Piper Alpha, shares her personal reflections on the ...

BBC Developing Drama Series About Scotland’s Piper Alpha Disaster, The Catastrophic Oil Rig Tragedy That Killed 167 People. By Max Goldbart. Max Goldbart. International TV Co-Editor ...

Piper Alpha Disaster. Posted: May 12, 2025 | Last updated: May 12, 2025. The Royal Air Force rescue team gazed at the hellish spectacle in front of them.

Died: January 15, 2025. Ron Bird, who has died aged 72, was a prominent, colourful and distinctive figure in politics and community activism in Aberdeen for almost half a century.

Families of the men killed in the world's worst oil rig disaster have branded plans to make a television drama out of the tragedy 'an invasion of our deepest wounds'.

EXCLUSIVE: The BBC is developing a drama series about the Piper Alpha disaster, one of the most catastrophic offshore oil incidents of all time and the worst in terms of lives lost. The drama ...

The Piper Alpha disaster in 1988 shocked the world, and changed offshore safety management and legislation in the North Sea beyond recognition. Julian Turner charts the safety improvements that ...

THE BBC is rumoured to be making a new show about the Piper Alpha disaster. It’s claimed that the drama series will re-live the horrors of the North Sea tragedy that claimed 167 lives. The 1988 ...

BBC Scotland apprentice Iona Ballantyne, whose father Bob survived Piper Alpha, shares her personal reflections on the worst accident since oil started flowing from the North Sea. What happened ...

EXCLUSIVE: The BBC is developing a drama series about the Piper Alpha disaster, one of the most catastrophic offshore oil incidents of all time and the worst in terms of lives lost. The drama comes ...