Another Dramatic Collapse

[ChillDoubt]

no, not the cricket for once!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25604696

As Blackadder would say, I think the phrase rhymes with clucking bell.

[Gromit]

At first I thought, Not another BNP question...

Thanks to coastal erosion, we are getting further and further way from France, every day.

[emmie]

not unheard in other parts of the country, shame if your house is dangling over the edge.

i like this bit

"Kevin Ice, who filmed the collapse, said he had never seen anything like it.

[emmie]

but that could be shoring up our beaches and surrounding areas, so we not be getting further away from France, and besides we have Le Chunnel to worry about.

[mikey4444]

I guess Britain has been falling into the sea since prehistory days. Nothing terribly new here.

[Sqad]

If this had been in the Daily Mail, then there would be a cry of "what has this to do with National News?"

But.......this was BBC News, so......must be News.

[Gromit]

Sqad
// If this had been in the Daily Mail, then there would be a cry of "what has this to do with National News?" //

No there wouldn't. The national newspaper and tv news has been full of weather related stories for a fortnight. Cliffs collapsing is not an unusual phenomenon in itself, but rare to capture the moment on film.

The item is not on the http//:www.bbc.co.uk/news front page. I suspect it is filed under a local news heading.

[Gromit]

It is in the Sussex News section of the BBC website. Not on he homepage

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-25594640

[jomifl]

/Thanks to coastal erosion, we are getting further and further way from France, every day. /
Oui, et c'est la meme pour La France, vive la distance.

[boxtops]

That was on the TV on Friday round here, another bit fell in yesterday. Jomifl - thankfully the Tunnel starts well inland :-)

[retrocop]

d'accord

[jomifl]

Boxy, I saw it on TV, we get the UK channels (not les manches) here because French TV is even more rubbish than the UK TV, it is seriously cr@p.

[New Judge]

"Oui, et c'est la meme pour La France, vive la distance."

Je don't reckon it is la meme pour La France. Je reckon that tous les rocks that have tombed d'Hastings traversez La Manche and augmentez les plages de Normandie.

Les thieving batards Francais !

[jomifl]

^Lol

[Zeuhl]

Squad

It was featured in The Daily Mail:

/England starts to collapse under weight of new immigrants/

[jno]

saw this on my travels last year

http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/54699515.jpg

Christchurch New Zealand. I think more buildings have fallen off since that photo.

[jno]

when Menorca falls under the sea... it will be under News, as AB doesn't have a Foreign News subsection.