Chips washing up on Eastbourne beach sparks action from locals

The chips came ashore in Falling Sands, which is near Beachy Head cliffs, after three shipping containers washed up at Seaford on Tuesday.

A spokesperson for the HM Coastguard said a container off Littlehampton, West Sussex, was also recovered, along with debris off Beachy Head.

“An aircraft was sent to survey the area on Friday and no further containers were spotted offshore,” they added.

They said containers which had previously washed up at Selsey, Eastbourne, Newhaven, Rustington, Rottingdean and Beachy Head were being monitored.

They came ashore a month after 16 containers fell from the cargo vessel Baltic Klipper near the Isle of Wight and days after several containers fell from two more ships off the island during Storm Goretti.