A RETIRED couple fear they will lose their home to coastal erosion – for a second time.

Dave and Anne Willies have already once forked out thousands to knock down and rebuild their home further back from the sea in Waxholme, near Withernsea.

Now, the pair have been told that, despite being 35 metres from the retreating cliff edge, they do not qualify for a £1.2 million scheme to help people threatened by coastal erosion. (more…)

TWENTY years ago Professor David Bellamy was stood in a house on the east coast, which was about to fall into the North Sea.

Now, two decades later, the international environmentalist and television personality has seen first hand how coastal erosion has taken its toll.

Professor Bellamy was back in Tunstall, near Withernsea, after being invited to Sand-Le-Mere Holiday Park which has lost about 328ft (100 metres) of land since 1969. (more…)

A FRESH call will be made for the Government to carry out an investigation into whether offshore dredging has contributed to large losses of land on the East Riding coast.

In the past year, unprecedented chunks of cliff measuring almost three times the length of a double-decker bus have disappeared into the sea. (more…)