Part of Cliff Collapses Near Some Oblivious People

This is the moment a stretch of grass-topped cliff toppled into the sea in a cloud of rubble and dust after the winter's savage storms caused seven years of erosion in just three months. To the shock of stunned bystanders sat on a wall just metres away the chunks of cliff top broke away from the cliff face at Birling Gap, on the East Sussex Coast and plunged onto the beach below today. A section of the chalk cliff at Birling Gap in East Sussex has fallen into the sea, leaving a row of former coastguard cottages close to the edge.