Coverack is continuing to rebuild itself following devastating flooding two weeks ago - including the beach itself.

Torrents of water shifted huge quantities of sand from the top of the beach, leaving a large stretch of barren rock.

To help remedy this, Coverack Space 2000 organised a variation on the annual tide challenge on Thursday, instead turning it into a "sand challenge."

This saw families transporting sand from the further down the beach up as far as they could, with points awarded for distance and amount of sand, with deductions for the number of people in each group.

Caroline Beadle, events co-ordinator for CS2000, said: "The amount of sand on Coverack beach always fluctuates, but the effect of the flooding the previous week had moved the sand much further down the beach than usual.

"The sand challenge was timed to fit in with a low tide. There were a number of rules that enabled us to keep the event as fair and fun as possible. On this occasion only sand was to be used.

"Two lines were drawn the length of the beach and sand was removed from below the lower line and placed as high as possible above the upper line. Each entry made a donation to the community group to help us continue to run events in the community. "

Judging was carried out by Terry Thompson, Maggie Gaunt and Dan Beadle, with Vanessa Millar helping with registering the structures.

This year there were 20 structures, helping to bring the sand higher up the beach. After the sound of the horn, teams worked hard for two hours carrying sand up the beach. Although wheelbarrows were not allowed, many other inventive uses of carry equipment were deployed, with lots of trugs, large shopping bags and even loaded body boards all put to good use.

Coverack Space 2000 awarded a certificate to the overall winning team, the Miles family with their structure ‘The Manacles,' with Roskilly’s Farm donating ice cream to the winning team.

Caroline added: "A huge thank you to all of those who supported the event by taking part and making it such a fun afternoon on the beach – we’ve done a bit to help bring the sand back!"

The community group Coverack Space 2000, runs events and activities in and around the Coverack area and has similar events planned throughout the summer.