Workers flown off platform

More than 70 people have been flown off a North Sea platform after it suffered a loss of power.

Coastguard helicopters were mobilised to take 76 non-essential workers off BP’s Bruce installation off Aberdeen late on Thursday evening.

They were transferred to other platforms in the area. The coastguard said that 45 workers remain on the installation.

A coastguard spokesman said: “Following a loss of power on the Bruce platform off Aberdeen late on Thursday, HM Coastguard rescue helicopters from Shetland and Inverness were tasked to partially down-man the platform.

“Seventy-six non-essential personnel were transferred overnight by helicopter to other platforms in the area.”