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Josh Salisbury

North Sea oil workers fear being stranded at Christmas amid weather flight cancellations

File: An oil rig in the North Sea

(Picture: PA Archive)

Hundreds of offshore North Sea oil workers could be forced to spend Christmas there after poor weather grounded helicopter flights.

Around 300 staff, many of them Scottish, have been unable to leave the platforms off the coast of Denmark because of lightning.

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