Prison Threat for Pensioner who Put Sand Back on Beach

A pensioner has been threatened with prison or a ?50,000 fine if he takes windblown sand back to the beach where it came from.

Arthur Bulmer?s seafront garden became carpeted after a week of storms swept tons of sand from the beach across the road.

It seemed like common sense to shovel it into his wheelbarrow and take it back, load by load, to its rightful place.

But the local council did not share Mr Bulmer's idea of logic.

Doing that, they told him, would class as fly-tipping, for which the maximum penalty is a ?50,000 fine or six months in jail.

Oh, and he would also have his wheelbarrow confiscated.