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12:32 GMT  Huge jellyfish swarms around Scotland  Jellyfish
swarm. Picture by Brian McMillan.  Huge swarms of jellyfish have
been spotted in waters around Scotland, and experts reckon it's
down to the hot weather.  Swarms have been spotted in the Fleet
estuary in south west Scotland.  Marine Scotland say large
numbers of the common moon jellyfish are also a sign the seas
are clean.  They don't think the jellyfish are more than a pest,
but if anyone does have a bad reaction to their sting, they
should go to a doctor straight away.  Swimming impossible  Brian
McMillan saw a huge swarm of the jellyfish.  A compass jellyfish
He said: "Swimming is impossible as there is not a patch of sea
that does not have this sort of quantity of jellyfish.  "The
beaches are littered with the bodies of dead ones that have been
washed up."  It's thought that recent hot and settled weather
allowed the jellyfish to breed, and that they'll simply die off
as time goes o