Our daughter died in an unfathomably random accident at this Dorset beach. So why do 'fools' still sit in the exact same spot where tragedy could strike at any moment? Antonia Hoyle investigates the alarming lack of awareness along Dorset's Jurassic coast By Antonia Hoyle for the Daily Mail Published: 17:03, 28 May 2024 | Updated: 17:29, 28 May 2024 e-mail 7 View comments Livi Lee is sitting on Hive Beach in Dorset, directly underneath a 60ft sandstone cliff. When I ask the 27-year-old why she and her companion, Marley Gregory, 25, have chosen this spot to set up camp, she smiles and says, simply: 'It's pretty!' As part of the Jurassic Coast, a Unesco World Heritage site, her honeyed backdrop is certainly stunning.
But it's also dangerous. In the past year, there have been eight rockfalls on this beach – two in the past seven weeks alone. The most recent, last month, contained boulders the size of cars.
The height of a three-storey building, it now blocks the breadth of the beach at high tide some 400ft away from Livi and Marley's chosen spot. Charlotte Blackman was crushed to death by a rockfall in 2012 while away with her boyfriend, parents and younger brother A reckless young couple risk their lives sunbathing underneath an unstable cliff in Burton Bradstock less than two weeks after a major rockfall Excess rainfall and a rise in sea levels of up to 20cm over the past 100 years, caused by climate change , seem to have made the already-precarious Jurassic Coast in Dorset .
