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| The teenage son of musician Nick Cave has died after falling from the top of Brighton chalk cliff. | The teenage son of musician Nick Cave has died after falling from the top of Brighton chalk cliff. |
| Arthur Cave, 15, was airlifted to hospital on Tuesday evening after members of the public attempted first aid on the boy, who was found at the foot of the Ovingdean Gap. | Arthur Cave, 15, was airlifted to hospital on Tuesday evening after members of the public attempted first aid on the boy, who was found at the foot of the Ovingdean Gap. |
| Walkers found the teenager on the coastal path Undercliff Walk 60ft below the clifftop. | Walkers found the teenager on the coastal path Undercliff Walk 60ft below the clifftop. |
| His death is not being treated as suspicious. Nick Cave and his wife Susie paid tribute to Arthur, who also leaves behind his twin brother Earl, in a short statement confirming his death. | |
| “Our son Arthur died on Tuesday evening. He was our beautiful, happy, loving boy,” it read. “We ask that we be given the privacy our family needs to grieve at this difficult time.” | “Our son Arthur died on Tuesday evening. He was our beautiful, happy, loving boy,” it read. “We ask that we be given the privacy our family needs to grieve at this difficult time.” |
| A Sussex police spokeswoman said: “A 15-year-old boy who was found with life-threatening injuries on the underpass of Ovingdean Gap, having fallen from the cliff above, has sadly died in hospital on Tuesday. | A Sussex police spokeswoman said: “A 15-year-old boy who was found with life-threatening injuries on the underpass of Ovingdean Gap, having fallen from the cliff above, has sadly died in hospital on Tuesday. |
| “Members of the public carried out first aid on the boy before he was taken to the Royal Sussex county hospital, Brighton, just after 6pm. He later died there of his injuries. The death is being dealt with by the coroner’s officer.” | “Members of the public carried out first aid on the boy before he was taken to the Royal Sussex county hospital, Brighton, just after 6pm. He later died there of his injuries. The death is being dealt with by the coroner’s officer.” |
| A spokesman for HM Coastguard said: “Newhaven coastguard were called by Sussex police to attend a report of a child who had fallen from the top of the cliff. | A spokesman for HM Coastguard said: “Newhaven coastguard were called by Sussex police to attend a report of a child who had fallen from the top of the cliff. |
| “The child had fallen right to the bottom from the top of the cliff but the coastguard was stood down as the ambulance took him to hospital.” | “The child had fallen right to the bottom from the top of the cliff but the coastguard was stood down as the ambulance took him to hospital.” |
| Cave, 57, is best known as lead singer of the alternative rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, which he formed in Melbourne in 1983. One of the most enduring musicians of the 1980s, he has also collaborated with acts including Johnny Cash, the Flaming Lips and PJ Harvey. The Australian musician had four sons, two from previous relationships, then Arthur and his twin brother Earl. He married Susie Bick in 1999, a model who had featured in Vivienne Westwood campaigns and on the cover of Cave’s 2013 album Push the Sky Away. The couple live in East Sussex. |