Seabed drilling for Wylfa Newydd nuclear power plant

The firm behind an £8bn power station on Anglesey has been given permission to drill boreholes in the seabed as it prepares its building plans.

Wylfa Newydd power plant will employ more than 1,000 people once it begins working in the first half of the 2020s.

Horizon Nuclear Power will look at the seabed structure at Porth Y Pistyll after getting a marine licence.

It will use the information gathered for planning and design aspect of potential marine works at the site.