It was the worst oil spill ever to hit UK shores and now five decades on from the Torrey Canyon disaster the RSPCA is looking back at the role the charity played in trying to save almost 8,000 of sick and dying seabirds
Fifty years ago, on the 18 March 1967, the oil tanker Torrey Canyon ran aground on Seven Stones, off the Isles of Scilly.
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