On the same day, a 72-year-old woman was pulled from the water at West Angle Bay beach, Pembrokeshire, Wales.

On bank holiday Monday, a 13-year-old boy, named locally as Reco Puttock, was pronounced dead after being pulled from the water at Leadbeater Dam in Halifax, West Yorkshire.

The body of a teenage girl was recovered from Kingsbury Water Park, Warwickshire, and that of a teenage boy was recovered from a lake in Rother Valley Country Park, South Yorkshire.

Phil Crow, 68, died on Monday while saving his granddaughter from the sea at a Cornish beach. The pensioner ran into difficulty while rescuing nine-year-old Sia Briskham after she was pulled out to sea by a sudden change in the tide.

Tina, his wife of 50 years, was also pulled out by the waves at Tregirls Beach, near Padstow, but was rescued by a passing boat.