A BRIGHTON mother out fossil hunting with her teenage sons on a Sussex beach spoke today of her horror as a woman tourist plunged 75ft down a cliff.

The 25-year-old victim was climbing down the cliff at Beachy Head with her boyfriend when she slipped and fell on to rocks, breaking her leg and knocking herself out. By chance, lifeboats were taking part in an exercise and a rescue operation was immediately mounted. The fall was witnessed by Barbara Saffrey, of Newhaven Street, who was walking below with sons Robert and David, both 14. Barbara said: "I saw the woman start to slip. She was sliding down on her bottom and then I saw her fall off and she was almost flying."Crewmen from Eastbourne's inshore lifeboat gave first aid. She was taken to Eastbourne District General Hospital.

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