Woman crushed to death in cliff collapse - The Times (subscription)

The father and boyfriend of a 22-year-old woman buried by a cliff collapse tried desperately to reach her before they were dragged away for their own safety, an inquest has heard.

Charlotte Blackman was crushed in the "blink of an eye" when 400 tonnes of rock fell on her as she walked along a beach on Dorset's Jurassic Coast in July. Miss Blackman's boyfriend Matthew Carnell, also 22, told the hearing in Dorchester of his futile attempt to shift boulders "the size of haystacks" to free her.

Mr Carnell and Miss Blackman's father, Kevin, called out her name as they