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Visitors to a UK beach an unusual sight earlier this week. The shoreline was in French fries ("chips" in British English). Thousands of bags of chips up on a beach in the county of Sussex. The bags in shipping containers that off cargo ships in the English Channel. Bad weather caused three of the containers to fall into the sea. Currents and tides one of the containers and the chips to the shore. Joel Bonnici, a local man, was the first to the chips. He said: "From a distance, it like the golden sand of a Caribbean beach, but on closer inspection, we not just the chips, but chip bags." He added: "In some areas, the chips 75 cm deep."

Volunteers are to clean up the beach. Many people to the beach to help the clean-up. Mr Bonnici said the chips were an environmental hazard. He said: " the plastic bags is a priority." He is worried about a colony of seals that live near the beach. Bonnici said: "If the seals see the bags, they will with them or try to eat them." A local official people to careful if they go to the beach. She said: "Please dogs on leads as some of the food items on to the shoreline may harmful to them." She asked people to " any new debris". The chip spill is the second such event in Sussex recently. Last month, thousands of bananas washed ashore.