but she stands down with her dream of independence still unrealised, leaving her party wondering if someone else can win that place in history. james cook, bbc news, edinburgh. a clean up operation is under way after about 200 barrels of reservoirfluid including oil leaked into the water at poole harbour in dorset. members of the public have been urged by poole harbour commissoners not to swim in the harbour or nearby until further notice, but the pipeline operators perenco said the situation was under control. earlier, our reporter simonjones was in poole harbour. this has been declared a major incident. a tier two incident, that means it s a medium level requiring a regional response. those 200 barrels worth of fluid that leaked, it s around 60 tonnes of material made up of about 85% water but 15% oil. that is why it is causing so much
what do you think is going to have to be done? well, as far as i m aware there are long held contingencies in place for this, an oil spill management plan, we ve got specialist agencies coming in today. obviously the oil company has to take an active role in that and as i ve said we hear that a number are part of it has already been recovered. and some of it is down to the weather as well. if it can be dispersed into sea, it s less of an issue. but as i said, the real worry is if any of it hits shore. we ve had no reports that it has hit shore at the moment but again all agencies are working together to make sure we are on top of it. the company responsible for the pipeline, perenco, what are you saying to them? what questions are you going to be asking them? this oil facility has been going for a long time, since before i was born actually. i suppose my focus at the moment with all the other agencies is just dealing with the issue and trying to make sure there are no long term or even