'Significant' oil reserves found near Gatwick airport
Britain could see a significant increase in oil production after a geologists discovered reserves which could be as much as 100 billion barrels near Gatwick Airport.
UK's 'billions of barrels of oil' could be tricky to extract
Prospectors have made the biggest oil discovery in the UK in 30 years - and say the true amount sitting underneath the south of England could be an unprecedented tens of billions of barrels.
The substance has been found near Gatwick - but some analysts are sceptical about how much of it can be extracted.
ITV News Science Correspondent Alok Jha reports:
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