A Danish lighthouse has been put on wheels to move it away from an eroding coastline.

When the 23-metre (75ft) Rubjerg Knude (ROB - YURG  KA - NUDE) lighthouse was first lit on the North Sea coastline in 1900, it sat roughly 200 metres from the coast, but that distance shrank to six metres as the cliff it was situated on fell away.

Arne Boelt, (AR-NEH BOOLT) the local mayor, said many things could go wrong when moving the defunct building, but that it was the only way the lighthouse could be saved without being dismantled.