FIVE men died and a sixth person is thought to be missing in another seaside tragedy as Britons basked in the sun on the hottest day of the year.

Beachgoers and emergency services tried to save three of the men after they got into difficulties in the water at Camber Sands near Rye, East Sussex, at around 2.15pm on Wednesday.

Two more bodies were found at around 8pm as the tide receded, and the RNLI and Coastguard were combing the sea and shoreline for another person thought to have been spotted in the sea.

The deaths bring the toll to 12 in less than a week as people head for the coast at the tail end of the school holidays.

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Police have charged a 29-year-old man with murder following the death of British backpacker Mia Ayliffe-Chung in Queensland, Australia.

The Queensland Police Service said he had been charged with one count of murder, two counts of attempted murder, one count of serious animal cruelty and twelve counts of serious assault.

Miss Ayliffe-Chung, 21, from Wirksworth, Derbyshire, was attacked at the Shelley's Backpackers accommodation in the Home Hill area of Queensland on Tuesday night.

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Jeremy Corbyn has ruled out a coalition with the SNP as the campaign for the Labour leadership shifts to Scotland.

Mr Corbyn and his rival Owen Smith are travelling to the country where they will go head to head in the latest husting in Glasgow on Thursday night.

Both candidates have pledged to invest £20 billion in Scotland if they are elected to lead a UK Labour government.

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Girls are expected to maintain their dominance over boys across the vast majority of subjects when the annual GCSE results are released on Thursday.

It is the final time students will be graded in the traditional manner ahead of Government reforms and Professor Alan Smithers, director of Buckingham University's Centre for Education and Employment Research, has carried out an annual analysis of predicted grades.

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