UK beaches after the storms – in pictures

'The thousands of tonnes of sand redistributed from nearby dunes to steepen the beach - here cut through by usually trickling stream from Bosherston Ponds.' The view from Broadhaven, Pembrokeshire. Photograph: jonmmm/GuardianWitness

A monster lobster claw washed up by storms at West Worthing. Photograph: weaselchap/GuardianWitness

Seal pup sheltering amid litter at Tregonhawke Beach, Whitsand Bay, SE Cornwall. 'Our group removed about 400 sacks of rubbish from our beaches over the past nine months, but the amount that has been spewed up from the sea recently is so massive that the task seems insurmountable.' Photograph: Claire Wallerstein/GuardianWitness

'Two metres depth of sand and shingle disappeared.' - a view of Covehithe on the Suffolk coast. Photograph: Anthony Robinson
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A battered lookout at Ynys Mon, Newborough. 'It took about a year to build and only opened in the summer. Am told it cost 50k. It lasted 6 months.' Photograph: wookietaff/GuardianWitness

The aftermath of the storms along Brighton seafront. 'Built up shingle, proving the power of the sea.' Photograph: Emily Hunt/GuardianWitness

'Creepiest ever flotsam,' asks folderdave, of this post-storm discovery on South Beach, Troon, South Ayrshire Photograph: folderdave/GuardianWitness

'A dolphin washed up on the beach after the recent storms.' - as spotted on Exmouth Beach, Devon. Photograph: ID484107/GuardianWitness

'The dog is standing on pure clay where two to three feet of sand used to be,' writes our reader of this image of Trearddur Bay seawall. Photograph: Didired/GuardianWitness

'Yorkshire WIldlife Trust, owners of Spurn Point, asked for help clean up after the December tidal surge. On one short stretch two volunteers gathered 2 car wheels, 5 oil drums, 1 large canister, 4 plastic buckets, 3 fish trays and 14 bags of miscellaneous plastic junk.' Photograph: Peter Church/GuardianWitness

Aberystwyth's promenade wind shelter slipping into the sea. Photograph: Will Andrews/GuardianWitness

'Found washed up along the strand line on Brighton beach, I think the severe weather really took its toll on this guy.' Photograph: tarnceride/GuardianWitness

Driftwood. Photograph: Penelope Barritt/GuardianWitness

Hayling Island. Hampshire. 'Shingle washed off and relocated to expensive shingle bank now three times the previous sandbank height.' Photograph: staticstasis/GuardianWitness