DOZENS of anxious Torcross residents this week spoke out about the ‘vibration and shaking’ they experience in their own home whenever bad weather stirs up stormy seas.

One woman saying they had a ‘sizeable interior crack’ in their living room and others saying that the vibrating started as early as 2013, and isn’t just an effect of Storm Frank in January.

Residents said the vibrations started when a large amount of shingle was lost from the beach and the metal pilings were exposed to the sea.

Dr Sarah Wollaston MP visited Torcross on Monday to speak to residents after the breach in the sea wall there on Friday.

Daisy Oxborrow, who owns a B&B on the Torcross front, said that they were ‘trying to communicate’ how bad the vibrations were to Dr Wollaston and the councils’ representatives, and said ‘it’s so strong and it’s getting worse’.

The Environment Agency said they had ‘engineers working on this’, and that any solution had to balance ‘costs against benefits’.

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