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image captionLance Martin said he barely slept on Monday night following warnings of another high tide at Hemsby
Winter storms which led to about 20ft (6.1m) of erosion to sand dunes protecting a coastal village have left a lifeboat service unable to launch and one homeowner hanging on by my teeth .
Hemsby Lifeboat s coxswain Daniel Hurd said the shocking erosion in Norfolk could result in a large collapse.
Lance Martin said he barely slept on Monday night amid fears his house could be washed away.
Great Yarmouth Borough Council said it was finalising plans for sea defences.
Police are hunting for a man missing from Surlingham, 38-year-old Simon Tait
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An extensive rescue operation which ran on until the early hours of this morning has resumed in the Broads after teams were unable to find a missing man.
Hemsby Broads Rescue, along with the fire service, search and rescue helicopters, police, Broads Beat and Winterton, Lowestoft and Gorleston Coastguards were tasked with finding Simon Tait, a 38-year-old from Surlingham, near the Beauchamp Arms on the River Yare last night.
He was last seen at an address in Surlingham at 6.53pm on Tuesday, and is described as being medium build, 5.8ft tall and wearing light-coloured cargo trousers and a green army-style t-shirt. He has short brown hair, blue eyes and stubble.
Tunnels have been dug into the dunes between Hemsby and Winterton
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People have been warned over digging into dunes after tunnels were found in the sandbanks along a Norfolk beach.
The man who spotted the tunnels on the dunes between Hemsby and Winterton on Wednesday said he was not only concerned the dangerous practice was weakening them - but that the person doing the digging could have been buried alive.
Hemsby Lifeboat coxswain Daniel Hurd said the individual was right to be worried and that the activity was an absolute no-no .
He said: I want to stress that nobody should be digging into the dunes whatsoever, at any time.