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CLIFF FATALITY Weymouth, Dorset. At 1.45 p.m. on 29th August, 1965, the coastguard at Wyke Regis told the honorary secretary that a girl had fallen over the cliffs at White Nothe and appeared to be seriously injured. There was a moderate westnorth- westerly breeze, a slight sea, and it was low water. The life-boat Frank Spiller Locke put out with a doctor on board and a small rowing boat in tow.

When she arrived off White Nothe the doctor and two members of the life-boat crew went ashore. The girl was found to be dead. Her body was taken to the lifeboat and landed at Weymouth at 4.5 p.m..