Saving Alnmouth from rising seas and coastal erosion complicated by links course being on private land

For most golfers, the most damage a furious wind can do is to your handicap – and, if you are really unfortunate, your car windshield.

But visitors to Alnmouth village golf club in Northumberland have to contend with the prospect of storms and rising sea levels consigning the oldest nine-hole links course in the country to history.

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As the sea inundates Odisha’s coastline, livelihoods have withered with the harvest and weddings are a rarity as young women refuse to move to areas where they see no future

• Photographs by Aishwarya Mohanty

In Udaykani, a coastal village in the east Indian state of Odisha, the walls of houses were once adorned with the marriage motifs of conches and shehnais , an oboe-like instrument played at weddings, considered auspicious for bride and groom. Today, the designs have faded. The village, once a hub of joyous celebrations, has not welcomed a bride in more than a decade.

With the sea on one side and fields on the other, Udaykani, along with neighbouring Tandahar village, was hit hard by a super-cyclone , the most intense ever recorded in the northern Indian Ocean, that lashed the state 25 years ago. Along with the growing environmental volatility of the Bay of Bengal over the years, it has meant a rise in soil and water salinity and subsequent loss of agricultural land, livelihoods and marriage prospects.

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Two companies are applying to build farm in 1 sq km zoned-off area off Port Quin close to Port Isaac

People who live, work and surf on one of Cornwall’s most famous stretches of coastline have reacted with consternation to plans to create a large seaweed farm 600 metres from the shore.

Two companies, Biome Algae and Camel Fish, are applying to build the farm in a 1 sq km zoned-off area just off the north coast, not far from Padstow, known for being the home of the celebrity chef Rick Stein’s seafood empire. It is also close to Port Isaac, where the comedy drama Doc Martin is filmed, and the popular surfing beach at Polzeath.

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Is there anything better than a wintry coastline, in all its grey glory, paired with excellent fish and chips?

Last week, I ventured to Southend-on-Sea with my partner. Rather than spending a rare day off together sitting in front of Netflix, we decided it would be much more enjoyable to see a bit of the British coastline, in all of its grey, tacky glory. It will be fun, we told each other. It will be nice to see the sea.

And yet, setting out from London in the car, against one of those endless grey skies that forecast a cool, penetrating drizzle, I had a slight feeling of dread. The last time I had visited Southend was as a child; I remember being blown away by the scale of the rollicking rollercoasters, too scared to go on them but enamoured of the environment: the sticky twirls of ice-cream, the noise, the fun. Would returning in the depths of winter kill a dear memory? Earlier this month, another British seaside spot, Falmouth, was crowned the UK’s most depressing place to live , while Southend was shortlisted.

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High tides and winds leave caravans ‘dangerously close to edge’ as area in Lowestoft declared unsafe

People have been evacuated from a Suffolk holiday park after part of a road collapsed and left some of the caravans “dangerously close to the edge”.

The coastguard was called to Pakefield Holiday Park in Lowestoft after high tides and wind eroded part of the beach.

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