#Rescue - Salvage teams have at last started to tow the stranded vehicle-carrier Hoegh Osaka, which is heading back to Southampton, reports BBC News.

The degree of list on the 51,770-tonne ship has been reduced substantially, allowing the vessel to be towed.

Earlier than planned, she is being towed up Southampton Water to Berth 101 at Southampton Docks. 

Only yesterday afternoon, salvage teams announced a 'weather window' of 48 hours to ready the vessel and prepare the tow to the port from where she departed earlier this month and subsequently grounded in the Solent.

It transpired she was deliberately run aground on a sandbank due to difficulities leading to the ship to list. This led the crew to take action in preventing the ship to sink in the channel.