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His Croydon store, with a colourful Christmas aisle, is bustling on a weekend visit with queues for the tills as shoppers stock up on mouthwash, washing up liquid, sweets and batteries.

Even worse, all along the northeastern coast of Japan, bodies began to wash up on shore.

Large quantities of small plastic pellets have washed up on an East Sussex coastline causing a pollution incident, a council has said.

"Frustrated" locals are being urged to avoid the wreckage of an abandoned boat washed up on a beach more than six weeks ago.

They were discovered after being washed up by the flood waters in the storm, said Desmond McKenzie, Jamaica's minister of Local Government and Community Development.