A Dover ship is being reinspected after it failed its first checks and was detained.

The new examination is for the P&O Ferries' Spirit of Britain, which had originally failed on April 12.

A spokesman for the Maritime and Coastguard Agency said: "A team of surveyors is now on board the Spirit of Britain carrying out the reinspection at the request of P&O Ferries. There are no further inspections of P&O Ferries at the moment.”

The Pride of Kent has already failed two inspections. on March 28 and April 13, and remains under detention.

P&O Ferries has had no sailings between Dover and Calais since it announced mass redundancies of nearly 800 staff on March 17.

Other ships on the fleet, operating from other ports, have been cleared to sail after MCA checks.

These are the Pride of Hull, for Hull and Rotterdam; Norbay, for Liverpool and Dublin, and European Causeway for Larne and Cairnryan.