BRAVERY: Simon Hill, centre, with his Royal Humane Society Award after risking his life at Northcott Mouth, near Bude. Left and right are Chief Constable Shaun Sawyer and Crime Commissioner Tony Hogg, with Rosalind Arthur and Ellen Winser, vice ...
An inquest has heard about frantic efforts to try and save a mother who drowned while trying to rescue one of her sons from a rip current. Alison Tooby, 52, from Wellington in Somerset died at Northcott Mouth beach near Bude in Cornwall last September.
They survived but their mum, in her 50s, could not be rescued after wading in to reach them at Northcott Mouth, near Bude, yesterday. Lifeguards ended their summer watch on Sunday, although patrols on more popular beaches in the area on the north ...
A member of the public raised the alarm after one of the boys made it back to shore, at Northcott Mouth, near Bude. He watched from safety as his mother died trying to rescue his brother just 24 hours after lifeguard cover on the beach ended. The boy ...
Lifeguard cover on a Cornish beach where a mother was fatally caught in a rip current had ended a day earlier. The woman, aged in her 50s, and her two sons aged 11 and 13 got caught in a current off Northcott Mouth, near Bude, at about 14:00 BST on ...
A woman has died after being swept out to sea in a rip current off the Cornish coast. The woman, who was aged in her 50s, and her two sons aged 11 and 13, got caught in the current off Northcott Mouth, near Bude, at about 14:00 BST. One boy made it ...