Independent: A pensioner won a major victory in the battle to save his house from falling into the sea after a High Court judge ruled that a conservation agency could not prevent him from maintaining his own DIY coastal sea defences. The judge ruled that a decision by Natural England to allow the fossil-bearing cliffs near his home to continue to erode “for scientific reasons” was unlawful. Peter Boggis, 77, from Easton Bavents, Suffolk, has spent years building his own coastal defences to prevent …