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		</div><p>A dead whale was spotted washed up on the shore of Battersea Bridge on the River Thames in London on Friday.</p>
<p>The Port of London Authority (PLA) believes the animal is a minke whale, after receiving a “handful of reports” about the creature.</p>
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<p>The whale was found at about 10pm on Friday evening by a PLA patrol boat.</p>
<p>Martin Garside, a spokesman for the PLA, said: “The first time we managed to get a clear sighting sadly it was already dead at Battersea.”</p>
<p>The PLA has begun the process of moving the whale to one of its facilities in east London, where it will then be brought to a specialist stranding team at ZSL London Zoo for a post-mortem to establish a cause of death.</p>
<p>The beaching is thought to be the third case of a whale found dead in the Thames in two months, after a humpback whale and an endangered sei whale were found on two separate occasions in October.</p>
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<p>Mr Garside estimated the whale, which can weigh up to 10 tonnes, to be around eight metres long.</p>
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