A man who fell from a cliff while walking his dog has died in hospital.

The 69-year-old man was airlifted to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary after suffering a serious head injury when he landed on rocks at Tyninghame Links, near Dunbar, just after 8am on Thursday.

An ambulance helicopter and RAF Sea King spent two hours winching the man to safety in an operation that was hampered by the incoming tide at Whitberry Point, East Lothian.

Lothian and Borders Police said the man, who fell 20ft from a narrow clifftop path, died a few hours after arriving at the hospital.

An eyewitness said: "I was there from about 8.30am and I could see medics and police working around him with the incoming tide lapping around him.

"They were at it for about two hours before the Sea King arrived at about 10.30am and took him up with two medics who were treating him."

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