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- Maryport Coastguard Rescue Team warned the public to stay away from a dead juvenile northern bottlenose whale on Flimby beach.
- The whale washed ashore after Storm Austen and Storm Boelo battered the United Kingdom.
- Officials said the carcass may contain toxins that could pass to humans.
- The team urged anyone seeing stranded whales, dead or alive, to report sightings immediately.