A new BBC documentary series is set to tell the full story of the Piper Alpha disaster and revisit the tragedy's aftermath. The world's worst offshore disaster claimed the lives of 167 men on the ...

Now, 37 years later, The Piper Alpha Disaster (WT), a box-set series from BBC Studios for BBC Two, BBC Scotland and iPlayer will revisit the events of that night and the months beyond, to reveal a ...

The 30th anniversary of the Piper Alpha disaster falls later this week, with those who perished in the tragedy to be remembered at a special memorial service. The evening event will take place in ...

The diver was one of the first men to escape Piper Alpha and, after being picked up by the Silver Pit standby vessel, he worked tirelessly to save others. Ed went on to write a book about his ...

The Royal Air Force rescue team gazed at the hellish spectacle in front of them. They were alone in the middle of the North Sea, and one of the world’s largest oil platforms was consumed by ...

Scot who lost father in Piper Alpha says family traumatised 30 years later “The garden is the Piper Alpha memorial. It will never be the generic North Sea garden as the companies would prefer.

Safety has vastly improved on North Sea oil and gas platforms since the deadly explosion on the Piper Alpha rig 25 years ago, but experts warn there is no room for complacency. The energy industry ...

SCARRED by the memories, Piper Alpha survivor Billy Clayton is never far from tears. Shaking, the brave grandad relived the world’s worst offshore oil disaster two decades on. Tomorrow is the ...

Tributes have been paid to a trauma expert who studied the psychological effects of the Piper Alpha tragedy. Prof David Alexander, who was director of the Aberdeen Centre for Trauma Research at ...

Piper Alpha - not forgotten, 35 years on. Image: Kath Flannery/DC Thomson Dozens of people gathered in Aberdeen to pay their respects to those who died in the Piper Alpha disaster.