Toxic cloud on Sussex coast may have come from ship, say sources

Haze that led to 150 people seeking treatment caused a pollution spike and 'might have been caused by a ship venting'

Authorities investigating the cause of Sunday's chemical cloud are working on the assumption that it came from a ship in the Channel after environmental monitoring sites picked up a localised spike in pollution levels.

The Maritime and Coastguard Agency is working with the Environment Agency to establish the source of the cloud, which left 150 people seeking medical treatment and caused the evacuation of Birling Gap beach in East Sussex.