Midway between the town of Aldeburgh and the seaside resort of Southwold, two popular spots on Britain’s Suffolk coast, lies the quiet rural village of Dunwich. Around 200 people live in this one-road settlement with its cosy pub/B&B, local museum, long gravel beach and monastery ruins.

You wouldn’t know it now, but in the Middle Ages the village was a thriving port the size of the City of London’s square mile, built on fishing, trade and religious patronage.

Greyfriars Monastery was established by Franciscan monks in the 1250s on lower-lying ground closer to the sea.

But a massive storm in 1286 swept away the monastery, along with many homes and other buildings. The crumbling stone walls you can visit today are the remains of the “new” friary, rebuilt in the late 13th Century on land half a mile from the sea.

They now stand perilously close to the edge of the cliffs – illustrating how storms, surges and coastal erosion turned the tide on thriving Dunwich, some of which was later built on higher ground.

In the intervening years a legend arose that the medieval town remained intact below the surface of the water: Britain’s very own “Atlantis”. Locals have even claimed that at certain stormy times you can hear the church bells ringing.

“This stretch of coastline has a ghostly quality,” said novelist Esther Freud, great-granddaughter of Sigmund, who lives in nearby Walberswick; her grandparents migrated to the area after fleeing Nazi Germany. “Walking along the shoreline on a misty day, you feel the past and present intermingled in this strange liminal space between land and sea.”

Experts, however, thought the old town would have long ago been broken up by the waves and washed away. That is, until evidence began to emerge that this legend of “Britain’s Atlantis” was not just a fanciful tale, but that medieval Dunwich – in at least some of its former glory – was out there, just metres from the shore.

From around the 1960s, fishermen began to report nets snagging on something below the surface of the water where the old town used to stand.

These reports prompted local marine archaeologist and diver Stuart Bacon to search for the remains of the last church to be taken by the sea: All Saints, which finally tumbled from the cliffs in 1911. 

Although the North Sea is hostile and usually has almost zero visibility, Bacon persisted. On a rare clear day in 1972, he saw the church’s tower looming through the water – covered in pink sponges and crawling with crabs and lobsters. A subsequent dive also revealed the ruins of another church, St Peter’s.

But it wasn’t until several decades later that a full survey of the seabed provided a much fuller picture of what lay beneath the waves.

Already overburdened by inflation, increased oil prices, food items, Pakistanis were in for a shock when the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) on Monday decided to increase the power tariff by Rs5.94 under monthly fuel adjustment.

NEPRA took the decision after conducting hearing on plea of Central Power Purchasing Agency (CCPA).

According to details, the increase in electricity prices will not apply to K-Electric customers and lifeline consumers.

The hike will burden the power consumers with additional burden of 50 billion rupees.

Earlier, CPPA had sought Rs6.10 per unit increase in power tariff under fuel adjustment for the month of January.

CCPA had said that in the month of January, 5.83% electricity was produced from water, 33.15% from coal, 6.73% from furnace oil, 14.07% from natural gas, 14.37 from imported LNG and 14.37% from nuclear power.

Vladimir Putin put Russia’s nuclear forces on high alert after comments by UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss and others, the Kremlin has said.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said “unacceptable” remarks were made about possible “clashes” between NATO and Moscow over Russia’s attack on Ukraine.

It is unclear precisely which comments by Ms Truss Russia objects to.

On Sunday, she said if Russia was not stopped, other states may be threatened and it could end in conflict with NATO.

They said the foreign secretary had always spoken about NATO as a “defensive alliance” and that the UK needed to support Ukraine.

Echoing comments by Defence Secretary Ben Wallace earlier, the source insisted the UK wanted to avoid “any sort of miscalculation”.

Speaking at a press briefing on Monday, Mr Peskov said: “Statements were made by various representatives at various levels on possible altercations or even collisions and clashes between NATO and Russia.

“We believe that such statements are absolutely unacceptable. I would not call the authors of these statements by name, although it was the British foreign minister.”

Speaking to Sky News’s Trevor Phillips on Sunday, Ms Truss warned that if the Russian president was not stopped in Ukraine, there could be “conflict” between Russia and NATO.

“This long-running conflict is about freedom and democracy in Europe,” she said.

“If we don’t stop Putin in Ukraine, we are going to see others under threat: the Baltics, Poland, Moldova, and it could end up in a conflict with Nato. We do not want to go there.”

Following Russia’s comments on Monday Ms Truss announced further sanctions in the House of Commons, including freezing the assets of three further Russian banks and preventing Russian banks from clearing payments in sterling.

There will also be an export ban on “high-end technological equipment” including marine and navigation equipment which “will blunt Russia’s military-industrial capabilities and act as a drag on Russia’s economy for years to come”.

She said there would be “economic hardship” for the UK and its allies as a result of the sanctions but said it was “nothing compared to those endured by the people of Ukraine”, adding that Putin must not succeed in his invasion.

The UK has already said it would introduce sanctions – in the form of asset freezes – against Mr Putin and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov – and Ms Truss said the government would target a “hit list” of Russian oligarchs “focusing on their houses, their yachts and every aspect of their lives”.