Provenance of beachgoing tyres still unknown

The appearance of around 250 tyres on a Scottish beach has left local authorities baffled about their origins. The used tyres washed ashore in Granton just before Christmas and some display signs of having been in the water for some time.

Local ward councillor Steve Cardownie suggested to the Edinburgh Evening News that the tyres may have come overboard from a ship. “It’s maybe an accident that a load has come loose on a vessel and that’s why they have washed up in one current,” he said. “If they have been lost from a ship it might be possible to trace which vessel it was and see if they can be punished. But it may be that they have been dumped in Forth and the current has washed them in.”