Olympic sandcastle Demolished over Health and safety Fears after Photos were taken....Another £5,000 Wasted

It is usually the incoming tide that spells the end for sandcastles.

But this 13ft-high fortress, built to mark the 100-day countdown to the Olympics, did not even stand long enough to have the waves lapping at its walls.

Instead, after £5,000 was spent on building the castle over four painstaking days, it was knocked down – over health and safety fears.

No sooner were the requisite publicity photos taken than a mechanical digger demolished it. Read More