MAN DIES TRYING TO HELP GIRLFRIEND

SOLENT Coastguards received two 999 calls from members of the public which said there was a woman in the water to the west of Selsey Bill, who was in trouble.

Coastguard rescue officers were sent to the scene immediately, as well as scrambling the coastguard rescue helicopter Victor Alpha from Lee-on-Solent. The Selsey inshore RLNI lifeboat was also asked to launch.

The man was located by lifeboat crew and taken to the lifeboat station from where he ws airlifted to the Queen Alexander Hospital in Cosham, but was pronounced dead there.

For full story see West Sussex Gazette August 1