Cover on some beaches has already ended for the season, with daily RNLI patrols set to end on others on September 28.

Rescues made in past few days include a woman holidaymaker who got trapped on a ledge by the high spring tide opposite Towan Island, Newquay, Cornwall, and a 31-year-old man who was looking at ancient tin mines plunged 30ft from cliffs at Chapel Porth, also in Cornwall.

RNLI rescuers say he's lucky to have fallen on to sand rather than rocks, and they found him just in time - he was lying in a cave with a broken ankle as the tide flooded in..

At Polzeath, Cornwall, a regular destination of David Cameron, lifeguards recently had to rescue more than thirty people in just one day.

They are urging people to take extra care, because the unpredictable currents - a legacy of the winter storms - can carry people quickly out to sea.

Cornwall RNLI spokesman Steve Instance warned today "Local people and regular holidaymakers - your beach won't be the same as how you knew it.

"It's worth taking a bit of time to look around and to notice what the tide covers up.

"When you go and visit your beach at high tide you don't know what's beneath the surface of the water.

"We're seeing evidence on a number of beaches of more sand coming in - the storms we saw this winter were the worse we've seen in living memory.

"So the damage they caused will take a long, long time to repair and to return our beaches to how we knew them."

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Britain's beaches 'becoming more dangerous'