A family’s new year holiday turned to disaster in Porthmellon, Cornwall, when a man in his 70s was swept out to sea and drowned.
Police said he went in the water at 11am yesterday to rescue a dog.
But witnesses said he was trying to save a relative who had got into trouble retrieving the dog’s ball. Locals said the elderly man may have been deaf and unable to hear shouts from passers-by telling him to grab a buoy.
A woman resident said the holiday group were made up of four adults and two children with their dogs.
A woman was pulled from the water by passers-by and taken to hospital. The man’s body was retrieved by a Coastguard helicopter.
In Sheffield, a man in his 20s died in from severe head injuries after being beaten by a gang in the Darnall area around 11pm on New Year’s Eve.
Police in Bournemouth, Dorset, launched a murder investigation after a 25 year-old man died in a brutal attack at 2.30am yesterday.
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A second man, aged 46, was found at the property with life threatening injuries. A 45-year-old man from Poole was arrested.
Murder squad detectives in Southsea, Hants, launched a probe after the body of a man was found in the street just 35 minutes into the new year.
On the roads, two young men were killed after their car overturned at 1.20am yesterday on the A2 outside the Dover Castle pub in Teynham, Kent.
Their Renault Clio hit a stone water pump at the side of the road, trapping all four occupants. A man and woman suffered serious injuries.
A man of 59 was killed instantly on New Year’s Eve when a Mercedes van ploughed in to him in Dartford, Kent.
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