Live Shell From D-Day Rehearsals Detonated On Beach

Cover image: Nairn Coastguard search and Rescue

A Second World War explosive hidden on a Scottish beach since rehearsals for the D-Day landings has been destroyed in a controlled explosion.

A Navy bomb disposal team from HMNB Clyde detonated the shell on a beach in Nairn, Moray last week.

The explosive was found by the Nairn Coastguard search and Rescue team during a survey of the beach on Wednesday.

A Facebook post from the coastguard said: "We were out checking parts of our beach area last night and we found a lot of junk on the sand.

"Unfortunately this is not junk, it looks like scrap but it is not, it is munitions from WW2 D-Day landing practice which took place around the coast."

"One is intact one is partly detonated, the rest is shrapnel from munitions fired at the beach."

Bomb disposal experts from HMNB Clyde were sent north to make the decades-old shell safe.

The coastguard team said it dated from D-Day landing practice runs which took place around the Moray coast.

Tom Rennie, of the Nairn Coastguard Search and Rescue team, urged anyone who finds something on a beach they are "not sure of" to call 999 and ask for the coastguard.