Chemical spill emergency in Harwich called on five Essex fire

Fire engines from Braintree, Dovercourt and Clacton rushed to a chemical spill in Harwich International Port after a tanker spilled chemicals onto its deck. Two fire crews from Braintree and Dovercourt and one from Clacton cordoned off the area where a container on a large vessel in the dock was leaking alkyl benzenes napthalene.Five litres of the fluorescent fluid had spread across the upper deck and the port authority called in a specialist team for the clean up yesterday evening (February...