Rare reconnaissance photographs of the 1953 floods which engulfed large parts of East Anglia have come to light.

The pictures were shot by the RAF and, until recently, some of them were classified.

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A fresh look at whether man-made reefs could be the answer to Norfolk’s coastal erosion problems is being backed by local landowners.

Engineers are experimenting with models of a range of reef shapes and how they affect wave patterns.

But a linked number-crunching exercise, looking at how reef shapes and positioning impact on beach sand movement, has been backed by Norfolk’s branch of the CLA country landowners association. (more…)

More than 360,000 cubic metres of sand will be added to a beach on the Norfolk Coast as part of an £8.8m project to prevent the Broads from flooding.

Work to limit the flood risk to the Broads from the coast between Happisburgh and Winterton is well under way and recharging the beach with sand begins on Monday .

Three out of nine new rock groynes have been finished with rocks brought in by sea from Norway on a 20,000 tonne barge. They replace existing timber and steel groynes between Horsey and Winterton Ness Gap.

Other parts of the scheme involve recharging the beach with 360,000m3 of sand between Sea Palling and Poplar Farm Gap, reconstruction of a 275m long section of rock revetment (rocks placed to protect the seawall from wave action) at Eccles and 25,000m3 of beach recycling (the relocation of a small amount of sand from behind a reef to an area where the beach is low, also at Eccles). (more…)

Villagers in Norfolk in fear of a scheme to flood them to save the coast have been told that is not the government’s intention.

The floods minister, Phil Woolas, has been visiting Sea Palling, 15 miles up the coast from Great Yarmouth.

He told people there that a scenario by Natural England to allow six villages to succumb to rising sea levels, was not what was going to happen.

He said it was the government’s duty to protect the area.

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The Bishop of Norwich has waded into the debate over plans to sacrifice 25 square miles of Norfolk land to the sea.

Speaking at the launch of a new inshore lifeboat for Sea Palling, he said the proposal by Natural England could leave coastal communities feeling “like prisons from which there is no escape”.

Addressing a packed church in Sea Palling today, where he had come to bless the village’s new lifeboat, the Rt Rev Graham James said vibrant communities with spirit, such as the coastal village, were crucial and should not be made to feel unimportant.

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The final of a trio of public meetings organised to discuss the threat of Broads flooding will be held tonight, but the number of people allowed in will be limited for safety reasons. The meeting will be a further chance for local people to talk about the potential impact of a Natural England document which says that 25 square miles of the northern Broads, an area which is home to six villages, could be allowed to flood in the coming decades in the face of climate change.

Read the full story by Ed Foss on the EDP website