After retiring to the Norfolk coast, Lance Martin soon grew used to the deafening sound of waves crashing against the cliffs 120 ft away from his two-bedroom bungalow.
He accepted that the erosion they caused would whittle away his garden as the years passed. It was the price he paid for his plum position overlooking the sea.
What he was not expecting, however, was to hear a ‘rumbling’ underfoot as he put the kettle on one evening in March 2018