Guardian: Holidaymakers visiting familiar sandy beaches along the east coast of England this weekend will have got a shock. Vast quantities of sand have disappeared, cliffs have collapsed, and familiar paths to the beach have had to be roped off because they end in a sudden drop.
The culprit has been the unusually bleak winter weather. Weeks of northeasterly gales in the last three months have taken as much as seven metres depth of sand off beaches of Norfolk and Suffolk, and eroded soft material from cliffs...