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Mon 12 Dec 2002Galician coast gets ready for another oil slickSPAIN: The Galician coast in north-west Spain is threatened with a new oil slick, possibly even bigger than the one that contaminated more than 250 kilometres of coastline 10 days ago when the tanker Prestige sank 140 miles out to sea. A front some 50 kms wide is reported to be drifting towards the coast, pushed by gale-force winds and heavy seas. From Jane Walker, in MadridA 5,000 tonne fragment that broke away from the main slick washed ashore over the weekend between the headland of Touriñan, near the fishing port of Muxia, and Corrubedo near Cape Finisterre.