Dear all, My co-authors and I are pleased to announce the publication of this short note on the first confirmed stranding of a *True’s beaked whale* (*Mesoplodon mirus*) in Britian, which was published in Mammal Communications earlier this month. The 490cm long female stranded on a rocky shore at Kearvaig Bay, in the north-west of Scotland, on the 29th January 2020. This finding adds a fourth new cetacean species to strand on the UK shoreline since stranding surveillance schemes began in 1990. The paper is freely available and can be downloaded via the following link: https://www.mammal.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/MC2003_TruesBeakedWhale... Corresponding author: Andrew Kitchener, (a.kitchener@nms.ac.uk) Many thanks, Mariel *Mariel ten Doeschate MSc* Scottish Marine Animal Stranding Scheme Department of Veterinary and Animal Science Northern Faculty, SRUC An Lòchran, 10 Inverness Campus Inverness, IV2 5NA www.strandings.org +44 (0) 7990513589