Public urged to stay away after ship containers of bananas wash up in West Sussex
Receiver of wrecks says finds of perishables do not have to be flagged, but council asks for space for clean-up operationIt isn’t quite Whisky Galore! – the classic British film in which residents of a Scottish island attempt to pilfer 50,000 cases of spirit from a shipwreck.Rather than the...
<p>Receiver of wrecks says finds of perishables do not have to be flagged, but council asks for space for clean-up operation</p><p>It isn’t quite <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/jul/28/whisky-galore-film-review">Whisky Galore</a>! – the classic British film in which residents of a Scottish island attempt to pilfer 50,000 cases of spirit from a shipwreck.</p><p>Rather than the prospect of finding a warming dram or two, people on the south coast of England have been coming across bunches of bananas after containers fell off the back of a ship and washed up on beaches in West Sussex.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/dec/08/public-urged-to-stay-away-ship-containers-bananas-wash-up-west-sussex">Continue reading...</a>
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