Tracey Williams was on holiday with her children in Bigbury Bay in south Devon in 1997 when they found their first "tiny treasure" - a piece of Lego washed ashore from a container lost from a cargo ...

Seagrass, scuba gear and ship's rigging are familiar finds for Cornish beachcombers. But it's the pirates' cutlasses, green dragons and the odd black octopus they're really after. For nearly 20 years ...

In 1997, the cargo ship Tokio Express was en route to New York when it was struck by a rogue wave, nearly capsizing and losing 62 shipping containers into the sea. Among these was a container filled ...

Nearly five million Lego pieces plunged into the sea in 1997. The pieces are still showing up — on England’s coast, in Ireland, Belgium, France and possibly at the beach near you. Many come to ...

Thousands of pieces of Lego have washed up on a British beach more than 20 years after five million bricks spilled from a cargo ship. The Tokio Express was en route from Rotterdam in the Netherlands ...

LEGO is hitting the tracks for its latest automotive set — a battery-powered cargo train! This interactive toy collection invites builders to construct an entire diorama of the cargo train station, ...

Liutauras has amassed 789 Lego pieces over the course of two years, as well as numerous fossils. Credit: PA A 13-year-old boy from Cornwall who has collected almost 800 pieces of Lego that spilled ...

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