A bid has been made to buy the world's smallest country - a platform seven miles off Harwich.
A controversial file-sharing website has been reported to have a made a bid to take over the principality of Sealand.
The country's "royal family" put the 550sq metre platform up for sale last week for £65 million.
Now it has emerged that Pirate Bay, which lets internet users find new films and television shows, is looking at the site to get around copyright laws.
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