Life on the edge: Plans to save town from coastal collapse

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Works to avoid ‘catastrophic landslips’ on the Isle of Wight are being planned with a £150 million tender to try and protect the town of Ventnor from its own geological make-up.

Studies by the British Geological Survey (BGS) show that Ventnor is sitting on harder rocks – Chalk and Upper Greensand – that overlie weaker Gault Clay, creating a sliding phenomenon that could one day see Ventnor slide into the sea.

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