Five villages - plus the biggest of the Norfolk Broads - would be surrendered to the sea if a new proposal for protecting the East Anglian coast was approved, an ecologist warned yesterday.

Home News IN BRIEF *Five villages - plus the biggest of the Norfolk Broads - would wind up under the sea if a proposal for protecting the East Anglian coast went ahead, an ecologist warned.

By TOM COX SALT By Jeremy Page VIKING, [pound]14.99 Flat it is, but north-west East Anglia can spark a surprisingly rugged imagination.

By Mary Cowlett Campaign: RiverCare Shopping Trol

SIR - If it is of any consolation, the beaches in East Anglia have been even more ravaged by offshore aggregate dredging than those of Wales. Here we are, losing our dunes, beaches, coastal housing, salt marshes, dunes, footpaths, farms and soon now the Broads.