Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.A rescue operation was mounted earlier today to rescue a whale floundering in a river near Glasgow Airport.The distressed animal was stuck in shallow water in the Black Cart on what appeared to be a sandbank.Coastguard search and rescue teams raced to the scene just beyond the far end of the airport runway.But by mid-afternoon it was confirmed the whale had died.The whale was found just ten feet from the shore and half a dozen rescuers were in waist-high water trying to roll the animal into a rescue tarpaulin.These dramatic pictures were taken by Scott McEwan.The dead creature was a northern bottlenose whale, which can grow to 28-feet and weigh five.
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