Clean-up operation under way after pellets from ship collision threaten wildlife - Fires were now out on the container ship Solong, which was in collision with the tanker Stena Immaculate in the North Sea last week.

Conservationists say it is a ‘real race against time’ after the plastic nurdles began appearing on beaches from the collision in the North Sea.

Small plastic pellets washed up on the east coast of the UK, a week after two ships collided in the country’s waters.