A DRIVER who was inside her car as it plunged over a cliff was rescued after she spent a night perched on the face of the 300ft precipice.

PARENTS were yesterday warned against letting their children dig large holes on beaches after a three-year-old girl was suffocated when a sandpit collapsed on her.

Two injured crew members on a dismasted and holed British yacht were airlifted to safety today in a dramatic dawn rescue, coastguards said.