Pembrokeshire is to host a two-day oil pollution course next week.

The course - on Tuesday and Wednesday, November 27th and 28th - is being run by the Counter-Pollution branch of the Southampton-based Maritime and Coastguard Agency in conjunction with Pembrokeshire County Council.

Only eight such courses are being held throughout the United Kingdom and the council submitted a successful bid to host the event, the only one to be held in Wales.

The first day is a classroom-based event at the Pembrokeshire Watersports Centre in Pembroke Dock, while Solva will be the setting for day two when one exercise will involve positioning oil booms at the entrance to the harbour.

Jayne Couzens, Pembrokeshire County Councils Emergency Planning Officer, said: The crux of the course is to keep all responders to an oil spill incident abreast with new techniques which have been developed, and to provide a standard delivery of training.

Around 60 people are expected to attend from all over Wales including representatives from the refineries, the ports of Fishguard and Pembroke Dock, as well as the emergency services and students from Pembrokeshire College.