内容摘要："Time is not on our side. It's coming up to 50 years since all this happened, and the number of people who knew them is dwindling every year," he said.

"Time is not on our side. It's coming up to 50 years since all this happened, and the number of people who knew them is dwindling every year," he said.

On Monday HM Coastguard said some were beginning to– a large inlet of the North Sea stretching from just south of Skegness to near Hunstanton, in Norfolk.

Kevin Turgoose, 72, who is walking his dog, says it was "inevitable" Lincolnshire would be next."We've been having some strong winds from the north-east over the past week," he tells me. "It was always going to wash up here."Christine Peters, 76, and her daughter Tracy Lear, 59, have parked their mobility scooters on a boardwalk next to a lifeguard lookout tower.

"It's disgusting, absolutely disgusting," says Ms Peters, shaking her head. "The weather is just starting to get better. It'll soon be Easter and this beach will be full of children."According to the authorities, the pellets are not toxic to humans. But Ms Lear adds: "It can't be healthy though, can it?"

On sunny days like this, the mother and daughter come here to marvel at the seabirds that inhabit this coastline.

"I'm really worried about them eating this stuff and getting ill," says Ms Peters."Now that’s a very funny story," he laughed.

They were in Hurn’s west London studio to shoot the poster when the publicist realised they had forgotten to bring the gun for Connery to pose with."I said ‘don't panic, one of my hobbies is target shooting with a pistol," said Hurn.

He produced his Walther air pistol which can be seen in the finished poster.The following year, at the height of Beatlemania, he spent about seven weeks photographing John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr at Abbey Road Studios during the filming of A Hard Day’s Night.