Bomb hoax on North Sea platform

Fourteen helicopters and a Nimrod are scrambled in a major operation to airlift North Sea oil workers after a security alert.
A bomb threat earlier today on a North Sea accommodation platform, which is now being treated as a hoax, resulted in the evacuation of oil workers from the Safe Scandinavia platform.
Police made arrangements for a 23-year-old woman to be returned to shore from the platform.
"It is understood the incident was sparked by comments made by a woman on the installation", said a spokesman for the RAF Kinloss base in Scotland.
A police spokeswoman said the incident had been "very quickly contained" and that nobody had been arrested.
British defense officials said 14 helicopters had been sent to evacuate the Safe Scandinavia.
The platform is owned and operated by Prosafe, an Oslo-listed company.