The Louthleader reports

BRITAIN’S first cloud watching platform will open along our coast next week with BBC weatherman Paul Hudson set to cut the ribbon.

The £30,000 wooden structure on the beach at Anderby Creek will allow visitors to recline on specially designed seating and identify various cloud formations.

Paul Hudson said: “We are doing the weather live from there that evening so it should be fun!”

It has been designed by Michael Trainor, the artist behind Mablethorpe’s Star of the East feature and the gin and tonic shaped beach hut. Mr Trainor said: “People often perceive cloudy skies as a negative thing, but actually clouds are beautiful, natural forms and if we learn to enjoy and understand them perhaps we will enjoy our daily lives just a little bit more.”

Visitors to the facility can rest on the seating and use a series of self-operated cloud-mirrors to ‘magic the sky down to the earth

Gavin Pretor-Pinney, founder of The Cloud Appreciation Society, said: “The Cloud Bar is an inspired way to remind the public some of nature’s most varied and beautiful displays take place daily above our heads.”

Paul Hudson (inset) and the Cloud Bar at Anderby Creek. (inset photo courtesy of the BBC)

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This is kent reports

BEACH huts which have been in use since the 1920s could finally be given planning permission after almost a century in a legal blind spot.

Thanet council applied for planning consent after a member of the public pointed out that they probably needed permission to put up hundreds of temporary huts over the summer.

After looking into the claim, red-faced council chiefs decided approval was probably needed.

The news has left some beach hut owners angry as to the legal status of their summer retreats.

Birchington resident Richard Galbraith said: “Because of the council’s tardy behaviour they may not be able to legally provide the facility of the beach huts for this year. As a beach hut user I recognise their value of these and consider it very sad that the council should potentially prejudice this facility which is so valued.”

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As reported by Sheddie Tim over at MSB news

This morning at about 3am a serious fire took hold at Mudeford Sandbank destroying four huts entirely and another two severely.

Early reports indicate a party with alcohol and fireworks was in progress at or near the scene overnight. Because site licence hut regulations prohibit overnight stays in the winter, this episode went unchecked for long enough for the fire to take hold.

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The trumpet of truth is reporting

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THERE may be a credit crunch and widespread economic gloom, but seaside lovers in Swansea are still snapping up wooden beachside huts at £10,000 a time.

The brightly-painted shoreline bathing huts lined with palms at Langland Bay, Swansea, are featured on postcards and countless photographs and paintings.

They also formed the backdrop for film star Catherine Zeta-Jones’ formative years as she spent much of her summer months on the beach with friends.

Now the huts, which have been a fixture on the edge of the iconic beach for the best part of a century, are being totally re-built by owners Swansea Council and leased off for £10,000 each (plus VAT).

It’s an extra £2,000 if you wish to specify which particular hut you wish to lease (not forgetting the £400 council legal and surveying costs) and buyers will be held responsible for all damage, repairs and maintenance.

Also, although lessees can use the huts 365 days a year they are not allowed to sleep in them in overnight.

You can find more about the Huts and how to lease them at Swansea Council website

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Those mad sheddies have been queuing for 4 days to grab a beach hut at Mudeford according to the BBC

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As many as 50 people queued in tents for up to four days in sub-zero temperatures to be in with a chance of getting a lease on a Dorset beach hut.

Lets on the wooden huts at Avon Beach at Mudeford come up annually on a first come, first served basis.

Eighteen summer-long leases were up for grabs on Monday at a cost of £400, while two lifelong leases were available at £800 a year.

Dozens had queued in tents and on picnic chairs since New Year’s Day.

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Normally the beach huts we mention are Sheds by the sea here in blighty but to grab search engines hits I thought would post about a UK royal and her beach hut antics… well you have to try!

Well according the the Daily Mail, Princess Eugenie stayed in a cheap beach hut on here gap year visit to India.

The 18-year-old Royal – sixth in line to the throne – was staying in a £13-a-night beach shack featured in backpackers’ bible the Lonely Planet as part of her gap year.

Their thatched wooden hut had a beach view and paper lantern, with plain rattan walls and a mosquito net. Fernandes staff had no idea of the identity of their VIP guest until the girls had left with their bodyguards.

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The Brighton argus reports

From December 1 to December 24, people will be able to open up one of the seafront beach huts every day to reveal a new, everchanging festive display.

The event has been organised by Beyond, a new church initiative for the city which has been arranging several art displays including a light display at the Old Market theatre on November 11.

Organiser Martin Poole, self-financing Church of England priest, said: “I wanted to find a creative way for people to think about spirituality since Brighton and Hove is such a creative place.

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The BBC reports

Image from Bournmouth echo

A man was taken to hospital after the car he was driving crashed through a fence and over a cliff in Dorset.

The vehicle overturned and landed on top of a beach hut at Westover cliff in Bournemouth early on Saturday.

The driver was rescued by emergency crews and taken to Poole Hospital where he was treated for chest pains.

A hydraulic crane was used to recover the car, which is registered to a woman from Bournemouth. Police appealed for witnesses to the incident.

The beach hut, which is owned by a Bournemouth woman, was destroyed.

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According the the Shoremem herald

FROM inside a beach hut in Worthing, an internet phenomena is broadcasting to the world.
Broadcaster, actor and entertainer Richard Vobes is probably the most prolific podcaster on the internet, with more than 1,000 shows to his name.

Since January 2005, Richard has created a podcast a day, and gathered a cult international following, including some of the most respected names in broadcasting.

you can listen on his website

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Shed of the Year judge Kathryn Ferry gets a quote in this article from the Times about the state of the beach hut market in the UK.

Our love affair with all things coastal shows no sign of ebbing away, so much so that even as financial markets implode the world over the humble beach hut still holds its own.

Nowhere is this more evident than in Bournemouth, where Glynn Evans, of Savills, is the estate agent handling the sale of a luxury beach chalet on the market for £45,000. Evans agrees that the Royal Balcony chalet, which is fully equipped for up to eight people, “isn’t the typical Savills property” but says that feedback so far has been encouraging.

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