Whisky firm fined £9000 after firth oil leak

A WHISKY company has been fined £9000 after pleading guilty to an oil leak in an environmentally protected area.

Nearly 20,000 litres of oil from Whyte and Mackay's Invergordon plant spilled into the Cromarty Firth in the north-east of Scotland last August.

The company pled guilty to the offence under the Water Environment Regulations at Tain Sheriff Court yesterday.

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