‘Catch of the week’: fisher lands Lego shark lost at sea for 27 years

Man finds rare item from Great Lego Spill of 1997' on top of his fishing nets after an expedition in Cornwall

A fisher from Devon has caught a rare Lego shark 27 years after it went missing from a shipping container in the 1990s.

The toy is one of 5m pieces lost overboard in the Great Lego Spill of 1997", when a freak wave hit a cargo ship called the Tokio Express off the coast of Cornwall. The pieces are still washing up today.