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Scientists are now claiming the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico was greater than originally estimated, up to 40,000 barrels a day.

Top kill operation "failed spectacularly", Florida State University's professor of oceanography Ian MacDonald told the Today programme.

BP "under-estimated the flow rate" and "over-estimated their ability to fight against that flow rate".

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