Danish lighthouse wheeled away from eroding coastline

Rubjerg Knude used to be 200 metres away from coast before sand shifting and erosion

A 120-year-old lighthouse in Denmark, at risk from North Sea erosion of the country's north-west coastline, was on Tuesday wheeled back from the cliff edge.

When the 23-metre (75ft) Rubjerg Knude lighthouse was first lit in 1900, it was roughly 200 metres from the coast; that distance shrank to six metres.