A 15-year-old girl has died after being pulled from the sea at Cleethorpes beach, police have confirmed.
Humberside Police said the girl and a boy, also 15, were airlifted to hospital at about 19:30 BST on Saturday.
The boy received treatment but was later discharged, the force said.
Both children had been reported missing at about 14:00 BST, prompting a search that involved an HM Coastguard helicopter and RNLI lifeboat.
Flowers and tributes to the girl have been left at the scene.
Police said the girl would not be officially named, at the request of her family.
Det Insp Nathan Reuben said: "Our thoughts and sincere condolences are with the family at this incredibly difficult time. We ask that they are given the time and space to process this tragic news. The family is being supported by specially trained officers.
"We are working together with all the relevant agencies, including Humberside Fire and Rescue and the coastguard, to fully understand the circumstances of the tragic accident."
Duncan Young
An HM Coastguard spokesperson said a lifeboat was launched at 16:00 and found the pair "some way" to sea.
They said it had been a very difficult day for everyone involved.
Earlier, police thanked the public for helping with the search.
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A British man who hacked high profile Twitter accounts as part of a Bitcoin scam has been jailed in the US.
Joseph O'Connor, from Liverpool, hijacked more than 130 accounts in July 2020, including those of Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Elon Musk.
The 24-year-old pleaded guilty to hacking charges last month.
On Friday, he was sentenced to five years for cyber crimes, according to the United States Attorney's Office in the southern district of New York.
The hacking was part of a major Bitcoin scam that generated tweets asking followers to send Bitcoin to an account, promising to double their money.
As a result of the fraud, an estimated 350 million Twitter users viewed suspicious tweets from official accounts of some of the platform's biggest users, including Apple, Uber, Kanye West and Bill Gates.
Thousands were duped into believing that a crypto giveaway was real.
O'Connor, who went by the alias PlugwalkJoe, was extradited from Spain to the US in April and last month pleaded guilty to hacking charges that carried a total maximum sentence of more than 70 years.
Three other men have been charged over the scam, with US teenager Graham Clark pleading guilty to his part in the deception in 2021.
The hackers telephoned a small number of Twitter employees with a believable tale to convince them to hand over their internal login details - which eventually granted them access to Twitter's administrative tools.
They managed to use social engineering tricks - more akin to conmen than high-level cyber-criminals - to get access to the powerful internal control panel at the site.
In a statement, US Assistant Attorney-General Kenneth Polite Jr described O'Connor's actions as "flagrant and malicious", saying he had "harassed, threatened and extorted his victims, causing substantial emotional harm".
The US justice department also said O'Connor admitted other hacking crimes including gaining access to a high-profile TikTok account and stalking a minor.
He was also ordered to pay almost $800,000 in forfeiture, the US justice department said.
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Humza Yousaf has said the next Westminster election should be used as a “manifesto for an independent Scotland”.
On Saturday, the First Minister told SNP members at the independence convention in Dundee that the manifesto should read “vote for SNP for an independent Scotland”.
It follows statements made by his predecessor Nicola Sturgeon, who said the upcoming General Election should be treated as a ‘de facto referendum’.
However Yousaf was clear that the only way to independence for Scotland was through “lawful and democratic process”.
He added the party would seek negotiations with the UK Government if the SNP were to win the election north of the border.
Yousaf said: “I am very clear, there is no route to independence except through the lawful and democratic process. Why? Because that is the way that we actually become independent.”
He added: “That election gives us the opportunity to break the log jam.
“I believe that in this election, the SNP should offer the people of Scotland a manifesto for an independent Scotland.
“And I am proposing in that manifesto – page one, line one – a simple powerful statement to the people. It should say ‘vote for SNP for an independent Scotland’.
“If the SNP win this election, then the people will have spoken. We will seek negotiations with the UK Government on how we give democratic effect to Scotland becoming an independent nation.”
During his speech, he also paid tribute to SNP stalwart Winnie Ewing following her death earlier this week.
The former SNP MP, MSP and MEP, who is credited with revitalising the independence movement, died on Wednesday aged 93.
Addressing the SNP independence convention, Yousaf said: “It is no exaggeration to say that we would not be gathered here today were it not for Winnie.
“With her passing this week, we mourn someone who was both a patriot and a pioneer.
“To Madame Ecosse, from the bottom of our hearts, we say thank you.”
North Wales Police have issued a statement appealing for witnesses following a fatal incident on the A525 this morning (Saturday). A man sadly died in the collision which happened near Llandegla in Denbighshire.
The road was closed for around five hours. Police have revealed that a white van was involved in the incident.
The statement from North Wales Police said: "We are appealing for witnesses to a one vehicle RTC (road traffic collision) in which a man sadly died. We were called at 5.32am today (Saturday) by colleagues from WAST reporting a single-vehicle RTC involving a white Renault Traffic van on the A525 near to the fishery in Llandegla.
"Officers from the Roads Policing Unit attended along with Welsh Ambulance Service and North Wales Fire and Rescue Service, and the road was closed until approximately 10.30am. The deceased man’s family have been informed."
The statement continued: "Anyone who may have seen the van in the area, or who was driving and has dashcam is encouraged to contact us via our live webchat online https://orlo.uk/KOIPD or on 101 quoting ref A098337."
North Wales Fire and Rescue Service told North Wales Live at the time: "One fire engine and one rescue unit from Wrexham attended and an officer as well. They were assigned at 5.35am and they left at 6.48am."
While drivers often bemoan the A55 on days when roadworks or a crash is causing traffic delays these are nothing compared to before the expressway was completed. Back in the early 1980s a journey from say Abergele to Holyhead meant travelling through various coastal towns - from Colwyn Bay to Conwy and Penmaenmawr.
Over the years the dual carriageway was extended across the North Wales coast - but it was certainly not without its challenges and fierce debates. In fact, the A55 we know now could have been very different if alternative proposals were followed. It could have also changed a peaceful rural landscape.
It had been the objective of successive Governments at that time to improve the the A55 - bringing it to dual carriageway standard all the way from the English border to Bangor - with it later extending to Holyhead.
Among the big debates was how to navigate towns like Colwyn Bay and also cross the Afon Conwy. Debates in Parliament in the 60s and 70s often show the feeling of powerlessness of Welsh members and highlight the debate even then over devolution for Wales.
At the time the Welsh Office were pushing forward proposals for a dual carriageway through the heart of Colwyn Bay, the biggest coastal town in the region. With this requiring a massive relocation and demolition project there was a strong push for an alternative strategy. There were also huge debates over a new crossing over Afon Conwy - with bridges, a tunnel and even a barrage considered.
Many favoured an inland alternative - an A55 bypass that would have snaked into the hills.
Ednyfed Hudson Davies, Labour Party MP for Conway between 1966 and 1970, told Parliament in 1968: "In common with many people in North Wales, I had favoured an inland bypass over the mountains skirting the whole length of the A55 from Colwyn Bay, past Llandudno and Conway, Penmaenmawr and Llanfairfechan, to rejoin the existing road near Aber(Abergwyngregyn)."
This could have seen the A55 shift inland across the Conwy countryside and cross the Afon Conwy in the vicinity of Tal-y-Cafn. It would have then risen sharply into the Carneddau - passing over Bwlch y Ddeufaen pass at 430 metres (1,410 ft), following the old Roman road before dipping and ending at Abergwyngregyn.
Illustration of how the A55 could have been routed over the Carneddau
MP Mr Davies does accept figures in a report that suggest the number of journeys that would be made on such a route may not justify the inland option - although did call into question some of travel projections.
But fast forward to March 1974 and it appears the politicians were no further forward on the issue.
Geraint Morgan, Conservative MP for Denbigh from 1959 to 1983, spoke in Parliament about the proposed 'Colleon expressway' and that an inland route remained on the table.
He said: "Since the preferred route (through Colwyn Bay) of 1972 was made known, the local authority, the Colwyn Bay Borough Council, has commissioned consultants to investigate possible alternative routes, and the consultants have produced an interim report in which they reject the present preferred route in favour of an inland route."
He voiced concerns that the Welsh Office was pushing on with its strategy.
He added: "What I and others find disturbing is that there are ominous signs that the Welsh Office is acting as if the preferred route of 1972, subject to certain minor alterations, is cut and dried, whatever may emerge at the public inquiry. Land is being acquired and piecemeal improvements are being made to the neighbouring section of the A55 trunk road.
"My plea to the Secretary of State is that a public inquiry should be held as soon as possible and that, if necessary, a draft order should be made to expedite matters .Secondly, I believe that no action should be taken that might prejudice the adoption of an alternative route pending the holding of that inquiry, and in particular that the Welsh Office should not in the meantime commit itself to any piecemeal improvements to the A55 in the vicinity of Colwyn Bay—however desirable they might be in themselves—that might in the end have the effect of ruling out better and less destructive routes."
The proposal went to an eight month public inquiry in 1974/75. This saw the decision made to press on with a dual carriageway through Colwyn Bay - causing huge disruption in the town in the 1980s and contributing to its economic decline in the 80s and 90s. As people will know the solution to navigating the Afon Conwy was an incredible tunnel scheme that opened in October 1991.
It means Bwlch-y-Ddeufaen remains to this day a peaceful haven for walkers, the Carneddau pones and the farmers who work the land.
The pilot of the Titan submersible said he took claims that he was putting lives at risk by offering expeditions to the Titanic wreck on his experimental vessel as “a serious personal insult”.
Stockton Rush, the founder and CEO of OceanGate, Titan’s operator, was repeatedly urged to get the submersible certified amid fears he was potentially putting himself and his customers at risk.
The 61-year-old and four others on board – British explorer Hamish Harding, 58, British-Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood, 48, his 19-year-old son Suleman and veteran French diver Paul-Henri Nargeolet, 77 – were all confirmed dead on Thursday.
An intensive, days-long search for the submersible has raised questions over the safety of deep-sea commercial vessels, which the US Coast Guard said was “going to be a future focus of review”.
It comes as it emerged that safety concerns over OceanGate’s expeditions dated back as far as 2018.
Rob McCallum, a deep-sea exploration specialist, told the BBC he repeatedly wrote to Mr Rush, urging his company to get official approval for its tourist excursions.
In one furious exchange, Mr Rush replied: “We have heard the baseless cries of ‘you are going to kill someone’ way too often. I take this as a serious personal insult.”
Mr McCallum said he ended his correspondence with the company in 2018, when OceanGate threatened legal action.
“Until a sub is classed, tested and proven it should not be used for commercial deep dive operations,” he wrote in one email seen by the BBC.
Mr Rush replied that he was “tired of industry players who try to use a safety argument to stop innovation”.
Meanwhile, US officials have defended focusing their search for Titan at the water’s surface for days, despite hearing an implosion deep in the water shortly after it went missing.
Fragments of the craft were found on the ocean floor on Thursday in the search, which included assistance from Canadian, British and French vessels.
It has now emerged the US Navy began listening for Titan almost as soon as the submersible lost contact with its mothership on Sunday.
The navy discovered that its secret underwater monitoring system, designed to detect foreign adversaries’ submarines, had recorded a suspected implosion shortly after Titan’s disappearance around an hour and 45 minutes into its descent to the Titanic wreck.
The implosion was detected near the debris field discovered on Thursday and the findings were passed to the Coast Guard, which was heading the search, on Sunday.
The information was also likely to have been shared with the Royal Navy on the first day of the search, experts told The Telegraph.
Steffan Watkins, an aircraft and naval research consultant, told The Telegraph that the US Navy, Royal Canadian Navy and the Royal Navy all monitored sensor arrays from the system.
“All three governments would likely have known on day one there wasn’t going to be a rescue,” he said.
It raises questions over what relatives of the five people on board Titan were told early on in the search, and why rescuers did not deploy underwater robots to the ocean floor sooner.
The Coast Guard initially focused its efforts on searching the water’s surface for signs of Titan. It was not until Tuesday that the first dive with remotely-operated vehicles (ROVs) began.
A spokesperson for the Coast Guard said: “The first search assets that arrived on scene were air assets from the US Coast Guard and US Air National Guard, which were able to reach the scene faster than other assets. The Unified Command made every effort to mobilise all available surface and subsurface search assets as soon as possible.”
Navy officials defended the search and rescue effort, telling the New York Times it would have been “irresponsible” to immediately assume the five men were dead.
While the “outlook appeared grim”, the rescue effort was ordered on Sunday since there was no visual evidence of a catastrophic failure, the newspaper reported.
James Cameron, who directed the Oscar-winning 1997 film Titanic, said the last few days had “felt like a prolonged and nightmarish charade”.
“I knew that sub was sitting exactly underneath its last known depth and position. That’s exactly where they found it,” he told the BBC.
Cameron added that many in the deep submergence engineering community had been “deeply concerned” about the tourist excursions offered by OceanGate, saying: “One of the saddest aspects of this is how preventable it really was.”
