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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Dave Higgens

Fires out on container ship involved in North Sea collision amid beach fears

The Solong container ship in the Humber Estuary, off the coast of East Yorkshire (Danny Lawson/PA) - (PA Wire)

Fires have been extinguished aboard a container ship which collided with a tanker in the North Sea as concerns continue about the effect on wildlife of plastic pellets released from the vessel.

The coastguard said firefighting teams have successfully quelled the blazes on the Solong, a week after it collided with the fuel tanker Stena Immaculate about 12 miles off the East Yorkshire coast.

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