A woman had a lucky escape after falling 65ft over a cliff edge.

The woman, in her 40s, was airlifted from the bottom of the cliff near the Badger's Watch pub in Peacehaven by the Sussex Police helicopter at about 4.30pm yesterday.

She survived the fall apparently unscathed and was conscious when she was rescued.

She was taken to the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton as a precaution.