Man dies at popular beauty spot

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9:24am 17th August 2012.

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A man has fallen to his death from the Cow and Calf rocks on Ilkley Moor.

He suffered head and chest injuries in the fall at approximately 10.40am on Wednesday 15 August.

The air ambulance was called to the popular beauty spot, but the man died as a result of his injuries shortly afterwards.

A police spokesman said the death was "not being treated as suspicious".

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