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Drill, Burnham, drill? The oil basin that is a totem for Trump - and a headache for Britain’s new PM

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Drill, Burnham, drill? The oil basin that is a totem for Trump - and a headache for Britain’s new PM
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North Sea oil, once the driving force of the UK economy, may be dwindling but it remains a symbol of prestige and a rich resource for political debateWhen oil was first discovered off the north-east coast of Scotland in September 1969, industry folklore has it that the duty superintendent on the rig carefully poured it into a pickle jar commandeered from the canteen and took it back to Amoco’s Great Yarmouth office in Norfolk. There, it was emptied into an ash tray, sniffed and then set alight.F

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