Houses, cars and caravans left in lurch as clifftop crumbles into the sea

CARS stranded on a crumbling road after a landslip, triggered by torrential rain, at Blackgang Chine, west of Ventnor, on the Isle of Wight yesterday. Nine hippies living near by in a former nudist campsite on the edge of the 100ft cliff were refusing to move, despite police warnings that they were in 'grave danger'. One empty caravan and two cars had careered down the cliff and five homes were perched on the edge. Residents said that it look like an 'earthquake zone'.

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