A commemorative service will take place on July 6th at 1pm in Aberdeen’s Hazlehead Park, where Scotland’s Piper Alpha ...

BBC Scotland apprentice Iona Ballantyne, whose father Bob survived Piper Alpha, shares her personal reflections on the worst accident since oil started flowing from the North Sea.

The 1988 Piper Alpha disaster has been described as one of the worst industrial accidents of its kind.

The BBC is developing a Piper Alpha disaster series about the tragic oil rig accident from STV Studios and James Wood.

Families of the men killed in the world's worst oil rig disaster have branded plans to make a television drama out of the tragedy 'an invasion of our deepest wounds'.

Survivors of the world's worst offshore oil disaster describe how the escaped the blazing Piper Alpha platform 25 years ago.

ON July 6, 1988, 120 miles off the coast of Aberdeen, the Piper Alpha oil platform caught fire. Some 165 men out of a crew of 226 died in the blaze.… ...

Tragedies such as Piper Alpha in 1988 taught the UK industry tough lessons about safety and led to major legislative and cultural overhauls, including the move to a goal-setting safety regime, but ...

Offshore workers are being asked pay their respects and remember the victims who perished in the Piper Alpha explosion, 33 years ago today. Tragically 167 men - including eight Teessiders - were ...

BBC Scotland apprentice Iona Ballantyne, whose father Bob survived Piper Alpha, shares her personal reflections on the worst accident since oil started flowing from the North Sea. What happened ...