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Fife Coast and Countryside Trust said strong onshore winds could have led to the stranding.

Thousands of starfish have washed up on a beach in Fife.

A spokesperson for Fife Coast and Countryside Trust said that storm events and onshore winds can occasionally disturb the seabed significantly enough to dislodge the starfish.

Babcock already has a vast covered hall at the Fife dockyard in which two frigates can be built side-by-side without interruptions due to weather.

Sixteen are stored in Plymouth dockyard, but there is no plan for them to be scrapped there, so if the pilot is successful, that work is likely to be carried out in Fife.