Updated: Greenpeace demands UK drilling rethink as Shell confirms on-going North Sea leak

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The government is today facing renewed calls to reconsider its plans to support an expansion of oil exploration in North Atlantic waters off the west coast of Scotland, after Shell this morning confirmed...

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