The Piper Alpha disaster had a huge impact on communities in the Northeast of Scotland and beyond. The series will tell this tragic story sensitively and comprehensively, drawing on new interviews and ...

The world's worst offshore disaster claimed the lives of 167 men onboard the Piper Alpha platform around 120 miles off the coast of Aberdeen on the night of July 6, 1988.

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

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.

PIPER Alpha survivors have re-lived the horrors of the North Sea disaster in a harrowing TV documentary. The 1988 tragedy, which claimed 167 victims, remains the world’s deadliest offshore ...

Lord Provost Barney Crockett added: "The Piper Alpha tragedy was 30 years ago, yet the events of that night are as shocking today three decades on. It will forever be imprinted on the Aberdeen memory.

The dad-of-three only set foot on Piper Alpha for the first time less than five hours before disaster struck. The clock was ticking towards tragedy when Dave attended his induction briefing, where ...

UK union Unite marks the Piper Alpha tragedy yesterday, 29 years on from the incident which killed 167 workers in the North Sea.

Journalist Jane Franchi looks back at the Piper Alpha disaster 25 years after she first reported on the tragedy.

When the names of the 167 men who perished in the Piper Alpha disaster are read aloud at the 30th anniversary memorial service, Geoff Bollands will recognise all too many of them. The former ...

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'.

Lord Provost Barney Crockett added: "The Piper Alpha tragedy was 30 years ago, yet the events of that night are as shocking today three decades on. It will forever be imprinted on the Aberdeen memory.