Defiant gran's desperate battle to stop her home from falling into sea - after previous agony

Bryony Nierop-Reading says she has seen coastal erosion destruct homes and onshore successful Happisburgh, Norfolk, and adjacent areas successful the past 30 years - but has vowed not to permission the village

A pistillate nicknamed Granny Canute has had to wantonness a 2nd house owed to erosion eating distant adjacent cliffs.

Bryony Nierop-Reading, 79, whose £25,000 bungalow plunged into the oversea successful 2013, present faces losing a 2nd home. The pensioner has antecedently refused compensation to permission her beloved home.

Mrs Nierop-Reading’s conflict against the tide earned her the nickname – aft the 11th period king who claimed helium had the powerfulness to clasp backmost the sea. She is present preparing for the demolition of her 2nd threatened home, successful Happisburgh, Norfolk.

The grandma has had a static caravan craned successful to her garden, and hopes to unrecorded successful it for the foreseeable future. Mrs Nierop-Reading said: "I won’t permission the borderline due to the fact that I privation to prevention the village, the lighthouse and the pub. If you unrecorded further from the cliff borderline you halt caring. It keeps my caput focused erstwhile you tin spot it disappearing."

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It comes aft the Mirror highlighted a akin conflict this week - successful Ulrome and Skipsea successful East Yorkshire, wherever residents person watched up to 8 shot pitches of onshore vanish implicit the years.

Recent storms took residents determination 30ft person to the oversea successful conscionable 2 weeks. Wilfrid Houghton, 78, who operates Seaside Caravan Park astatine Ulrome, told The Mirror: "2023, has been a unspeakable year, a precise mediocre twelvemonth for coastal erosion.” He said they person been suffering “with precise precocious tides and precise beardown winds. That’s the benignant of happening we’ve been having to enactment up with."

Looking crossed the sea, helium pointed out: "It’s an uninterrupted presumption determination crossed to Flamborough Head erstwhile the day’s clear. That’s our main attraction is the oversea but successful adverse times it is our biggest force arsenic acold arsenic coastal erosion is concerned."

Experts fearfulness the nonaccomplishment of full villages successful the future, connected the fastest eroding coastlines successful Europe. Things are truthful atrocious the nationalist are being warned to enactment distant from cliff edges connected the East Yorkshire coastline aft respective “significant” cliff collapses precocious - adjacent successful the seaside edifice of Bridlington. The East Yorkshire coastline recedes by an mean of six metres a year, with immoderate areas losing 12 to 15 metres.