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Anna MacSwan

Huge chunk of UK coastline collapses into sea after battering from weeks of storms

Hundreds of tonnes of rocks have collapsed into the sea in an enormous landslip.

Incredible pictures show boulders the size of cars spread across a beach on the Jurassic Coast, after the area was battered by recent storms.

They fell from the ancient 160ft sandstone cliffs near Burton Bradstock, Dorset.

The picturesque beach - where Charlotte Blackman, 22, was crushed to death by rockfall in 2012 - has been completely blocked off by the storm wreckage.

Luckily, no one is believed to have been injured in the latest slip, although officers from the local council have closed the beach.

Boulders the size of cars are among the rubble (Neil Barnes/BNPS)

The scene was captured on camera by landscape photographer Neil Barnes.

"There have been quite a lot of landslips in the area recently with the weather being as it has," said Mr Barnes, 61.

"There were quite a few dog walkers down there but no one got too close and moved away quite quickly.

The ancient stretch of coastline took a battering during recent storms (Neil Barnes/BNPS)
Hundreds of tonnes of rock tumbled from the cliffs (Neil Barnes/BNPS)

"While I was down there the council arrived to evaluate it and close the beach from the end.

"High tide is at around 2pm today and if anyone were to come by it then they could quite easily get cut off by the rockfall."

Earlier this year, a huge cliff at Livermead in South Devon also collapsed into the sea , just yards from homes.

The incident sparking coastal warnings after several tonnes of red rock fell into the ocean.

Onlookers say the fall has changed the coastline near Torquay, Devon, forever.

It came after two similar cliff falls in recent weeks at Fishcombe in Brixham, reports  Devon Live .

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