BRIDGWATER and West Somerset MP Ian Liddell-Grainger has asked for a formal meeting over plans to build a ring-road' around the coast of Britain.

The Countryside Agency is proposing that a path is constructed 100 yards inland right around the coastline so that people can have unbroken access to the foreshore.

But Mr Liddell-Grainger, while in favour of public access to spaces, said the coast path was not thought throughl.

"It's a stupid idea," he said. "In my constituency, it would mean public access right along the West Somerset coast where, at the moment, the only places that are not already accessible are the places where people could fall and break their necks."

He has now called on the Countryside Agency to think again.

"Such a path would go through Hinkley Point, bird sanctuaries, quicksand, high crumbling cliffs all sorts of places where people shouldn't or wouldn't want to be."

And he warned: "If this proposal goes ahead and one person falls off a cliff as a result, I will name and shame those responsible."