The co-owners of an oil tanker involved in a collision with a cargo ship in the North Sea have released the first picture of some of the crew and praised their "exceptional bravery".

Nurdles are 1-5 millimetre pellets of plastic resin used in plastics production. They are not toxic but can damage wildlife if ingested ...

Burnt material and plastic pellets, also known as nurdles, have washed up along the UK's east coast following last week's collision in the North Sea ...