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Article

29 Oct 2006

Author:
Mark Townsend, Paul Harris, Observer [UK]

The daughter who is taking on the might of BP [USA]

...A ferocious fireball surged through the western quadrant of the vast British-owned oil refinery where James and Linda Rowe worked...The bodies of the couple...were so charred they were unrecognisable...In a fortnight, the death of the married couple will become the subject of a case that could witness BP's chief executive Lord Browne giving testimony in court..An appeal has been lodged by his lawyers, arguing it is not relevant that the chief executive should give testimony.