Storm batters beach huts...now floods are on the way

BEACH huts lie smashed on a shore after the cliff where they stood took a battering from Storm Nelson, leaving owners around £25,000 out of pocket.

- Andy Russell

Other timber structures at the site teeter precariously above a 10ft drop where it is only a matter of time before they go the same way.

Risk

Devastated owners of beach huts with a total of about £500,000 at Hordle Cliff in Milford-on-Sea, Hants, have been told the local authority can do nothing to stop coastal erosion.

And now floods are feared as the Met Office issued a yellow weather warning for parts of the South West and South Wales for a soggy end to the Easter bank holiday weekend.

The worst weather was expected in Portsmouth, Southampton, Bristol and Bath. Up to 30mm is expected to fall in some areas over a short period of time, and the Met Office urged people to check if their property is at risk of flooding.