It was built to resist fire—but not the blast that tore it apart. The Piper Alpha explosion killed 167 and exposed deadly gaps in offshore safety.

New BBC documentary series to tell the full story of The Piper Alpha disaster and its aftermath A powerful story of the rush for North Sea ‘black gold’, safety failures and a community ...

THE Piper Alpha blaze remains to this day the world’s deadliest offshore disaster. The North Sea oil platform was engulfed by a fireball 120 miles off the coast of Aberdeen 37 years ago. The ...

UK pubcaster the BBC has commissioned a docuseries about the Piper Alpha oil rig disaster off the Scottish coast in the 1980s and a two-parter investigating the Moors murders in England in the 1960s.

UK Energy Minister Michael Shanks doubled down on his outlook for the UK's North Sea industry on Thursday, despite widespread criticism from the sector.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea sent six North Koreans back across the rivals’ sea border on Wednesday morning, months after they drifted south in wooden boats in March and May. It came ...

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Health authorities are urging people visiting or living in the Sea to Sky region to take precautions against mosquito bites following four serious viral infections last summer.

Gwynedd pizzeria in stunning waterside location wants permission to sell alcohol Owner Sam Woodward said there had been a lot of "local goodwill" for the scheme ...