New research shows the stormy winter of 2013 - 14, when the railway line at Dawlish was washed away, was the most energetic for almost seventy years.
A study in the Geophysical Research letters journal found the waves along Europe's atlantic coast were the most severe since at least 1948. The researchers say they had the ability to dramatically change Devon's coastline.
Three years jail for charity box thief
And he can't eat in McDonald's for eight years
Spat over whether 'inadequate' children's services are as bad as MP suggests
Exeter's Steve Race believes they are in 'last chance saloon;
Totnes market not opening in Christmas week
Most traders don't want to do it
Torbay adult social care rated 'good'
'Our vision is for thriving communities where people prosper'
Hospitals brace for Junior Doctor strikes
From frontline to picket lines
Mixed report for Plymouth adult social care
Some cases closed too early
