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Beachcomber, 13, finds ‘holy grail’ Lego octopus washed ashore from 1997 spill

A 13-year-old boy who has collected almost 800 pieces of Lego that spilled into the sea from a shipping container in the 1990s has finally found a “holy grail” plastic octopus after two years of searching.

Liutauras Cemolonskas told the PA news agency he was “happy” to have found the rare octopus, which was one of nearly five million pieces of Lego that fell into the sea in 1997 when a cargo

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