Beauty spot beach cordoned off after fourth dead body found in three days

A woman's body has been discovered at the base of cliffs near Whitby, marking the fourth such incident in the area within three days, according to police.

North Yorkshire Police's coastal unit reported that the woman's body was located at Sandsend, close to Whitby, beneath the cliffs behind the main car park. The force disclosed that the woman was in her 50s and a local resident.

She was found at 11.01am by a member of the public who then alerted the emergency services. This death follows the loss of a man and a woman, both believed to be in their 40s, who fell from the cliffs at Whitby on July 30, and another woman in her 60s, discovered by the cliffs near the pavilion on July 31.

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