“Cockle Beach” is the kind of name to conjure up images of large groups of women in shawls and hardy men in peaked caps, heavy linen shirts and dark waistcoats gathering shellfish along the seashore on a neap tide.

A DOLPHIN and her young calf were put down by lethal injection. Repeated attempts to refloat them failed after the pair became stranded at Cockle Beach in Crookhaven.