Bombs Blown Up On Highland Beach

Bomb disposal experts have carried out a series of controlled explosions on a Scottish beach.

It follows the discovery by a local coastguard team of several World War Two munitions buried in the sand.

The team from the Moray town of Nairn, situated between Fort George and RAF Lossiemouth, were conducting a regular beach patrol near a stretch of coastline at Culbin Forest when they found the unexploded ordnance.

Having called colleagues in Aberdeen the decision was taken to bring in the experts from Her Majesty's Naval Base Clyde, better known as Faslane - the home of the UK's nuclear deterrent. 

The barnacle-encrusted devices are likely to have been left on the remote beach during training in 1944 for the D-Day Landings.

Tall wooden poles can also be seen sticking out of the sea, erected some 75 years ago as a defence against the threat of Nazi gliders carrying German soldiers from landing on the flat sands.

Culbin Sands themselves were acquired by the Forestry Commission in 1921 to help replenish the UK's wood stocks following the First World War.