Missile part is found on beach

A TWO-FOOT-LONG part of a missile has been washed up on a beach in the Outer Hebrides.

Coastguards have cordoned off the remote location on South Uist after the grey and aluminium cylinder was discovered by a walker. It contained the marking "charge cartridge for missile". The public are being warned to keep away.

A Royal Navy bomb disposal team from Faslane was yesterday making its way to the island to make safe the device.

A spokesman for Stornoway Coastguard was unable to say where the missile part had come from, though the islands are home to a major military missile firing test range.