How 'unique' Spurn peninsula is being repaired by nature (www.bbc.com)

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A wildlife trust has explained how nature itself is repairing a peninsula split in two by a massive tidal surge more than a decade ago.

Spurn, a 3.5 mile (6km) spit comprising sand, mud and marram grass in East Yorkshire, curves between the North Sea and the Humber Estuary.

The 2013 surge - cited by the Environment Agency as the worst since the floods of 1953 - washed away the only road, while swathes of sand dunes and wildlife habitats were lost.

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