Weymouth A hotel right on the beach and with stunning sea views is available to Britons holidaying at home for only £10 a night.

The offer is open only until it next rains, however, as the hotel is made of sand.

And the mess left by sleeping on a sand bed will have to be washed off in the sea, as the hotel has no shower.

Mark Anderson, 42, a sand sculptor, and three friends spent 14 hours a day for a week building the 10ft (3m) structure at Weymouth, Dorset.

It was commissioned by laterooms.com after research predicted that 37 million people will visit British beaches this year.

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