The Isles of Scilly Coucil’s newish youth center on St Mary’s, opposite the Secondary School has had it’s diesel oil tanks burst. These tanks supply both the Carn Thomas and Jackson’s Hill School buildings. The spill started about 9:45 pm when the pipe was burst on the west exit to the youth center. The fire brigade hired a coucil digger to place a pile of sand in the way before too much of it flowed down the hill via the drains and into the sea below the dairy. The slick was diluted with hundreds of gallons of water from the nearby hydrant, which then saw all the run-off go into Hugh Beach.
