London - A massive chunk of Beachy Head has crashed into the sea in an unprecedented landslide caused by global warming, it emerged last night. Thousands of tonnes of chalk sheered off the rockface at the coastal beauty spot near Eastbourne, East Sussex, at the weekend as a 200-yard section of cliff loosened by persistent rain plunged 500 feet to the beach below.
The collapse, which can be seen from three miles out to sea, is so extensive that it filled a 100-yard channel to reunite Beachy Head's unmanned lighthouse with land.