A growing number of seaside resorts are banning the sale of cheap bodyboards amid fears about pollution and safety. The boards, many of which are made in China and which can be bought for as little as 60p online, are hugely popular. But thousands of them are abandoned every year, while many crumple after just a couple of uses. Most disintegrate into tiny plastic fragments that are almost impossible to remove from the beach. Now seaside shops are removing them after calls for a nationwide ban. ‘We find thousands of these boards on the beaches,’ said Neil Hembrow, of Keep…