Is the UK prepared for an oil spill?

24 September 2010 Last updated at 07:50 ET Help

In the wake of the massive BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the oil industry is reviewing contingency plans and boosting the numbers being trained to cope with another disaster amid criticism that it cannot cope with blowouts in deep water.

Our environment correspondent David Shukman joined an exercise off Southampton.

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