No hope of saving beached whale

A 26ft (8m) whale that beached on a mudflat off the south coast of England has suffered kidney failure and faces being put down, rescuers said.
The Northern Bottlenose whale became trapped in Langstone Harbour, off Hampshire, on Thursday and beached overnight during low tide. Rescuers freed it from mudflats using a special lifting pontoon but it has remained in shallow water.When the whale beaches again at low tide, it will be put down, experts say.Experts from the British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) said however that even if it made it back out to sea there was no chance of it surviving, because of the renal failure, which was confirmed through blood tests.The tide has begun to go back out and at some point later, the animal would be brought in and given a lethal injection.An operation to try to save the whale began on Thursday but was called off when it became dark. The whale later became beached on a mudflat at 2330 BST.