Friday should have been busy with swimmers, strollers, paddlers and kayakers, served by the Holy Cow ice cream stand and volunteer lifeguards. Instead, it was empty. Last Tuesday Martyn Craddock, 52, filmed a dark blob of sewage pouring from the pipe at the foot of the cliffs. As his video went viral, Southern Water said it was not sewage but “rainwater and debris/sludge from drains”. Sewage threatens Britain’s coasts It was one of four landfills