When February's storms battered a hole through the sea wall at Dawlish some shipping containers were hastily placed in front to defend it, and weighted down with rocks and sand. It is now November and low tide on the 7th has allowed work to start on their removal. An excavator slices one open to let the sand cascade back onto the beach.
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