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Crowds gather in Aberdeen's Hazlehead Park, where a service takes place to remember the 167 men who lost their lives in the Piper Alpha disaster, July 6, 2018

THE fight to honour the legacy of the victims of 1988’s Piper Alpha oil-rig disaster continues, RMT union general secretary Mick Lynch said on Saturday.

“Piper Alpha shows the dangers of poorly regulated profit-driven operators,” said Mr Lynch on the 36th anniversary of an explosion that turned the world’s the biggest single oil-producer into the site of the industry’s largest loss of life.

“As we mark this anniversary, RMT calls for a review of the offshore safety regime’s effectiveness.

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