Giant sperm whales washed up on Lincolnshire coast

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One of the beached whales Credit: ITV Calendar

The sperm whales have washed ashore off the coast of Lincolnshire at Skegness and at Gibraltar Point.

They are thought to be the remaining members of a pod of whales which were spotted in The Wash on Friday.

The Royal National Lifeboat Institution's Skegness base tweeted a picture of one of the whales after it was carried ashore with the 6.30am tide.

Two more dead whales were also washed up south of the town.

On Friday a 50ft-long whale beached on rocks at Hunstanton in Norfolk, unfortunately it later died despite rescue attempts.

An RNLI spokesperson said,