1.   The Welsh coast was cited as a particular case for concern.

2.   The police had traced the dinghy to Londoners who owned a weekend cottage a few miles away up the Welsh coast.

3.   But there was a green backlash yesterday at the prospect of a further big expansion of oil and gas exploration off the Welsh coast.

4.   Meanwhile, a search resumed for the French trawler Toul an Trez with five crewmen which disappeared off the Welsh coast on Christmas Eve.

5.   A crew of salvage engineers reboarded the stricken supertanker Sea Empress in stormy seas off the Welsh coast Tuesday in a race to contain an environmental disaster.

6.   A dozen tugboats on Wednesday floated the oil tanker Sea Empress that had run aground off the southern Welsh coast, British coastguards said.

7.   A salvage team forced to abandon the crippled supertanker Sea Empress overnight off the Welsh coast was trying to reboard her Tuesday in efforts to avert environmental disaster.

8.   But coastguards near the wreck just off the southern Welsh coast at Milford Haven denied reports that the supertanker had started to break up on the rocky coastline.

9.   Twelve tugboats on Wednesday floated the oil tanker Sea Empress that had run aground off the southern Welsh coast, British coastguards said.