Police have launched an investigation after the bodies of a five-year-old boy and his mother were found at Beachy Head, East Sussex.



The discovery was made at the cliffs near Eastbourne by coastguards and police at 7am on Monday.

A Sussex police spokesman said the bodies were those of a 42-year-old woman and her son from Maidstone, Kent.

He said: “The deaths are not being treated as suspicious. Inquiries are at an early stage and no further information is available at this time.”