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Pic: Graham Hunt/BNPS<br />
Date: 27th March 2023.<br />
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Pictured: View from the air of the clean-up operation at Owes Bay at Poole Harbour in Dorset after an oil spill.<br />
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A clean-up operation is continuing today after thousands of litres of oil leaked into Poole Harbour.<br />
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About 200 barrels of reservoir fluid has spilt from an underwater pipeline into the south coast harbour, one of the UK's most important and protected sites for wildlife. <br />
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It is believed that about 15 per cent of the 31,000 litres of fluid is oil, meaning that almost 5,000 litres of it may have polluted the harbour.<br />
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The spill happened yesterday afternoon (Sun) when an underwater pipeline that runs 30 miles from the site at Wytch Farm, on the Arne peninsula, to Southampton Water, leaked.