In the light of the government’s failure to continue to protect so many vulnerable and valuable stretches of our coastline by using the machinations of the Shoreline Management Plan (that placed Hemsby into the ‘Managed Retreat’ category, i.e. do nothing) local people have organised the setting up of ‘Save Hemsby Coastline. See our 14th May […]
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- Progress to save Hemsby coastline
- Lifeboats hit by escalating erosion
- Recent Coastal Loss of Norfolk
- Coastguard Closure Battle continues
- “Rogue fishermen” break Lyme Bay scallop fishing agreement
In the past few weeks a twenty five mile stretch of the Norfolk and Suffolk coastline has had up to five metres of sand stripped off the beach and has lost over ten metres of dune protection, due to huge waves created by a sustained north easterly gale, taking the sand back to the chasms […]
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Normally along our North Sea coastline we experience beach sand loss and consequent dune attack from late December to early March, when the powerful northerly winds drive in big waves up our beaches and the undertow takes the disturbed sand out to sea. In late Spring, Summer and Autumn months, the opposite is true. Then […]
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A new group within the framework of the National Coastguard SOS Campaign Group has been formed in Great Yarmouth to fight Shipping Minister Mike Penning’s ambition to disband Havenbridge House as part of the government plan to reduce the UK’s Coastguard stations from the current 19 down to 11. The Thames Coastguard station at Walton-on-the-Naze […]
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CMS News reports, 21st August 2012: Within a month of the Blue Marine Foundation signing up local fishermen to support the sustainable management of Lyme Bay and its reefs, four ‘rogue’ fishing boats have been recorded fishing in the closed area. Charles Clover, the instigator of the Blue Marine Foundation initiative, wrote at length in […]
