A MAN who fell from the cliffs at Beachy Head is in a critical condition.
A Sussex Police spokesman said: "At 3.32pm on Thursday, December 27, police were alerted by the coastguard to a report of a man injured at the foot of the cliffs at Beachy Head in Eastbourne.
"The victim, a man in his 40s, was taken to Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton with serious chest and spinal injuries, where he remains in a critical condition."
Police, ambulance, air ambulance and coastguard services attended the scene.
A spokesman for South East Coast Ambulance Service said: "We sent an ambulance and two cars to a patient who had fallen 40 metres down a cliff near St Bedes School, Eastbourne.
"The patient was conscious but suffered a head injury and was on a ledge so was lifted clear by the Coastguard helicopter.
"They then teamed up with the Helicopter Emergency Medical Service at Shoreham airport which took the patient to the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton."
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