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Town could be left cut off 'within weeks' if coastal cliff falls into the sea

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A town and surrounding villages could be left cut off "within weeks" if a vital part of a coastal cliff falls into the sea, it has been claimed.

There are fears that a storm could destroy what remains of a "small cliff" at Sand-le-Mere which acts a narrow but key barrier between the raging North Sea and town of Withernsea and parts of Holderness in East Yorkshire.

In a concerning prediction, Phil Mathison, of Withernsea's Coastal Change Observatory, says that, should what is left of the crumbling cliff edge fall away, the North Sea could inundate Tunstall Drain - a gully that begins immediately behind it.

The drain is "below the level of the high tides" and could therefore swamp low-lying land all the way to the Humber near Stone Creek,

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