Doctor Who superfan finds new home for Dalek

He is buying it to donate to the museum – due to open next year – which celebrates the “unique industrial history” of the area.

He said that although the Dalek had no real link to the town they hoped to create one.

“We intend to produce a children’s story book about the Daleks arriving here to exploit a mineral, precious to them, within the Brora coal seam and nowhere else, hence their presence here,” he explained.

“One Dalek was left behind as a sentry to guard their special mineral – and here he is.”

And he promised visitors had one guaranteed way to make sure they were safe from their new exhibit.

“Only if they don’t donate, we will exterminate,” he said.