A 40ft-long shipping container believed to have fallen from a cargo ship has been discovered on Aberthaw beach in the Vale of Glamorgan, south Wales.
The empty container washed ashore following an alert from the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA), which reported that 11 containers had been spotted floating in the sea off Land's End on Monday.
In a separate incident, a container full of incontinence pads also came ashore on a beach in Devon. The MCA said two other containers were located on the North Cornwall and North Devon coastline, while seven more are thought to have sunk.
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