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Real-life Canute fights coast ruling
A retired engineer who built his own sea defences is trying to reverse a legal judgement which would result in his home being washed into the sea.
78 year old Peter Boggis has spent seven years and over fifty thousand pounds of his own money constructing a kilometre long sea wall from 25,000 tonnes of compacted clay. He is trying to stop the sea eroding cliffs just a hundred yards away from his home at Easton Bavents, north of Southwold in Suffolk, UK. Mr Boggis started the work without planning permission.…
November 26, 2009
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