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Public urged to stay away after ship containers of bananas wash up in West Sussex

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 8 December 2025

Receiver of wrecks says finds of perishables do not have to be flagged, but council asks for space for clean-up operation

It 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 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.

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Public urged to stay away after ship containers of bananas wash up in West Sussex

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 8 December 2025

Receiver of wrecks says finds of perishables do not have to be flagged, but council asks for space for clean-up operation

It 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 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.

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Public urged to stay away after ship containers of bananas wash up in West Sussex

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 8 December 2025

Receiver of wrecks says finds of perishables do not have to be flagged, but council asks for space for clean-up operation

It 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 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.