Police rushed to Whitby Abbey, in North Yorkshire, at 7.16pm on Wednesday after the man and woman's bodies were spotted on the rocks beneath the cliff by a local.

Police rushed to Whitby Abbey, in North Yorkshire, at 7.16pm on Wednesday after the bodies were spotted on the rocks by a local.

Police rushed to Whitby Abbey, in North Yorkshire, at 7.16pm on Wednesday after the man and woman's bodies were spotted on the rocks beneath the cliff by a local.

Man and woman, who have not been named, thought to have taken own lives in Yorkshire seaside town on Wednesday

The woman's body was discovered below the cliffs on the North Yorkshire coast by a member of the public, the day after a couple fell to their deaths at the same spot.

Emergency services were alerted to the discovery of a body at Sandsend near Whitby Abbey just after 11am yesterday - where three others also died this week.