Visitors to Falmouth's Castle Beach may have noticed a new addition this spring, as a row of beach huts has sprung up near Castle Drive.

The huts, on a concrete standing overlooking the sand, are a new venture by the owners of the Castle Beach Cafe, who are looking to expand after last year's winter storms destroyed their old premises and they spent much of the summer rebuilding.

Owner Steve Gray said: "This has been dead space for years.

"People ask where they are going to sit now, but there's a beach and we've left plenty of space (on the standing in front of the huts)."

As well as several of the huts being rented by families or locals for the summer, one is being sublet for one, two or three days at a time, while others are being used to sell beach goods and by the Cornish Diving School as a base for lessons.

There are already five people on the waiting list for any privately rented huts that become available, thought the current lessees have first refusal for next summer too.

Steve said: "They are all going, every one went as soon as we announced it.

"People with grandchildren have bought them, or who just want to come, sit and read."

He added: "It would be nice to have a bit more money to properly repair the sea wall, and re-point the walls

"As local people we have got to do a lot of little jobs ourselves."