National Trust in £2.6m beach bid

%VIRTUAL-SkimlinksPromo%The National Trust has launched an urgent public appeal to raise £2.6 million to help it buy a "magical" stretch of coastline for the nation.

The trust wants to buy Bantham beach and the Avon estuary in south Devon, to maintain quality access to the sandy beach for the hundreds of thousands of people who visit each year and to protect the landscape along the unspoilt coastal site for nature.