The British coastlines that are disappearing the fastest

Will Self's 2006 novel Dave's book - in which the author mixes a contemporary comedy novel with a science fiction dystopia - includes a map of London after the Flood. All that remains of the rest of England, now called the Ing Archipelago, are a few jagged islands. It's an extreme version of the apocalypse that climatologists foresee.

If sea levels rise well above the two feet already considered extremely likely - and no action is taken to build new coastal defences, London would not fare nearly as badly as West Sussex, Somerset, Kent or Lancashire, at least according to ...