An award-winning beach hut café was among a number of wooden structures that were damaged after being smashed together by high tides in Felixstowe.

The conditions on Friday morning, amid a cold snap on the Suffolk coast, damaged Grandma's Little House, which was named British Beach Hut of the Year in 2017.

Pictures from the seafront showed several other huts were moved slightly in the conditions.

Run by owner Joy Reeve and her friend Karen Kenny, Grandma's Little House has been providing hot drinks and homemade cakes for donations to charity for the past seven years.

It has been recognised over the years for raising money for a number of charities, including more than £5,000 for Parkinson's UK last year.

Grandma's Little House is not one of the huts at risk of being moved by East Suffolk Council.

Joy said she thought it was an April Fool's joke when she was called to say her beloved beach hut at the Manor end of the beach had been swept across the seafront by the high tides.

She said: "It has been carnage – there are loads of huts that have been washed out of place.

"My hut has been washed back to the seawall and turned sideways, and the hut that is normally next door to me in the row has also been washed back and is now right up against my hut so I can't even get in.

"The high tides has washed a number of the beach huts out of their usual place.

"Probably at least 20 of them have been moved around and one of them has been washed back and is now actually blocking a small flood gate."