Europe's most important court has ruled that protection from climate change is a human right.

The judgment will be put to the test in Britain by a climate change refugee who lost his cliff top home to sea erosion.

Rising sea waters and increasingly violent storms caused by melting ice and warmer oceans

are a special concern on Britain's East Coast.

Special correspondent Malcolm Brabant reports from the

village of Hemsby by the North Sea.

For Kevin Jordan, this is a painful trip down memory lane. It was natural for me to retire to a

place like this. I could sit outside on my veranda, gin and tonics in the

afternoon, watching the ships go by. His dreams were raped six months ago by the

cruel North Sea. We had quite an unexpected storm, caught us unaware as actually. My house

was demolished because of erosion. I lost everything. There's no

compensation for when you lose your house like that. These pictures are all that

remain. Jordan now lives in a social housing complex which he finds as depressing as his new status.

Climate change refugee, that's for sure.

When you see these poor people trying to seek a better life in another country. It's so similar. My life has been

affected very badly. This battered coastline belongs to Hemsby in the county of

Norfolk, 140 miles northeast of London.

Blessed with a long world-class sandy beach,

it's a magnet for sun seekers when it stops raining.

The concrete bathing platform is a benchmark.

50 years ago it was identifiable as a Second World War defensive bunker.

Now it surrendered to the deep.

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