Cliff falls leave fossils on the beach below

Charmouth Beach, Dorset This section of the Jurassic Coast is one of the most active landslip sites in Europe

It is fossiling weather - wet and stormy with a strong tide and choppy sea. The cliffs above Charmouth Beach are running with water and the top of Black Venn is masked by fog. Trickles of soil and small stones dribble down the dark cliff face.

This section of the Jurassic Coast is one of the most active landslip sites in Europe. One section has slipped in the past few days, sliding a great chunk of clayey rock and mud on to the shingle below. The sea is already dragging the fall away, the waves sucking into its soft base and pulling it out into Lyme Bay where the water divides: pinkish-grey inshore and leaden slate far out in the English Channel.