Mersea

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Labour MP Harry Cohen claims a caravan on Mersea Island is his main residence 2009

Yet he declares on his Labour website that he and wife Ellen 'live' in Leyton and 'spend weekends at their static caravan' on Mersea Island, an unspoilt stretch of the East Anglian coast.

Labour MP Harry Cohen claims a caravan on Mersea Island is his main residence 2009

Labour MP Harry Cohen claims a caravan on Mersea Island is his main residence

Labour MP Harry Cohen claims a caravan on Mersea Island is his main residence 2009

But I have to leave half way through because I have agreed to take an anniversary service for one of the Mersea organisations that I'm officially involved with.

Allowable weakness are very annoying Sam Norton 2006

Parts of Mersea will still be OK, but a lot will not.

Impact of sea level rise Sam Norton 2006

In twenty years time most of Mersea will be under water.

TBTM 20060317 Sam Norton 2006

Have a look at the powerpoint slides from my Learning Church presentation, where I indicate the sort of things that will happen in Mersea.

Why so much about Peak Oil? Sam Norton 2006

Anyhow, after an hours drive to return to Mersea - and then a half hour wait on the other side of the Strood because the tide is up again groan - I get home and check the details for the service I am taking this afternoon.

Allowable weakness are very annoying Sam Norton 2006

Which means for Mersea residents - much less reliable use of the Strood, beginning now.

Meres Igge Sam Norton 2006

On the next level it is a reflection of global warming, and the fact that by the second half of this century Mersea will be much more emphatically an island than it is now.

Watching the tide come in Sam Norton 2006