She was on a diving holiday with her partner in the Sri Lankan coastal town of Hikkaduwa on Boxing Day 2004 when the country was devastated by a huge tsunami. Ms Mills-Porter, from Cofton Hackett ...

Hikkaduwa, one of Sri Lanka’s premier beach resorts and a dependable revenue earner, has been twice hit, and hit hard, in the past five years – first by the December 26 tsunami in 2004, and then by ...

At Peraliya, the tsunami wave was about 30 feet, and surged inland for more than a mile; at Hikkaduwa, the wave came ashore at a height of about nine feet, and barely grazed the beach. Such dramatic ...