The area appears to have been called Beachy Head around 1724. The name has nothing to do with any beach but is a corruption of the original French phrase ‘beau chef’ meaning beautiful headland.

A YOUNG woman has drowned after being swept into the sea as she took pictures of a lighthouse near Beachy Head. Pharmacist Dora Mango, 26, was found floating face-down in the sea off the beach in ...

Sussex police and coastguard teams have been working since early this morning to recover the bodies from notorious suicide spot Beachy Head. The corpses were first spotted on rocks by a police ...

The crack stretches a couple of metres along a section cliffs close to the Belle Tout lighthouse near Beachy Head near Eastbourne ... tonnes of chalk fell on to the beach below the cliffs ...

The number of suicides at Beachy Head has more than halved during 2006. In the past 12 months seven people committed suicide by throwing themselves off the cliff in Eastbourne, compared to 15 ...

Faye Reed, 22, screamed as she stumbled over the edge in the dark at Beachy Head in East Sussex, while with friends an inquest heard. Friends said they were 'devastated' as coastguards and ...

A young driver has been airlifted to hospital after his car plunged 500ft off cliffs at Beachy Head. The 20-year-old's car landed on the beach at the notorious suicide spot near Eastbourne ...

David Burr regularly takes photos of people on the cliffs between Beachy Head and Birling Gap in East ... and away from the cliff face when on the beach beneath. "Sea cliffs are dynamic, they ...

They hired Manhattan Beach contractor John Madison, the stepfather of a childhood friend, to build the unique home. Two elements of the house design caused trouble: the stairs, which are supported ...

Beachy Head lighthouse will be allowed to return to natural granite because the cost of painting it red and white can no longer be justified. Lighthouse authority Trinity House said the lighthouse ...