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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Benjamin Roberts-Haslam

Oil could reach Merseyside's coastline 'in weeks' after 80,000 litre spill

Oil could reach Merseyside's coastline 'in weeks' after an 80,000 litre spill, Sefton Council has confirmed.

It was confirmed on Tuesday that " tar balls " could wash up on Merseyside's coastline, after around 500 barrels of oil leaked from a pipe near North Wales.

Authorities in Southport, Crosby and Formby have warned that the leak of just under 80,000 litres may make it to our beaches 'in weeks'.

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