{"id":348596,"date":"2026-01-02T19:05:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T19:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/348596\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T19:05:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T19:05:18","slug":"man-dies-after-new-years-day-swim-at-brighton-beach-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/348596\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dies after New Year’s Day swim at Brighton beach | UK News"},"content":{"rendered":"

A man has died after getting into difficulty at Brighton beach on New Year’s Day.<\/p>\n

Sussex Police were alerted to a man having been recovered from the sea after getting into difficulty at around 10.35 on the morning of Thursday, 1 January.<\/p>\n

He had been in the water to the west of Brighton Palace Pier, the force said.<\/p>\n

The 51-year-old man from Kettering in Northamptonshire was brought to shore and received medical attention, but was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n

His next of kin and the coroner have been informed.<\/p>\n

The death is not being treated as suspicious.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson from HM Coastguard said it was first alerted to “an incident involving a male swimmer in difficulty in the water” at about 10.10am.<\/p>\n

“Coastguard rescue teams from Shoreham and Newhaven were sent alongside Brighton RNLI [Royal National Lifeboat Institution] inshore lifeboat.”<\/p>\n

It comes after Devon and Cornwall Police over Christmas urged people to avoid coastal swimming after two men, in their 40s and 60s, went missing in the water<\/a> off a beach in Devon on Christmas morning.<\/p>\n

The search for them was called off on the evening of Christmas Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has died after getting into difficulty at Brighton beach on New Year’s Day. Sussex Police were…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-348596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}