article_snippet.sent: A 16-year-old schoolboy has died after falling from a cliff and plunging into the sea in the middle of the night.
article_snippet.sent: The teenager, named as Joshua Smith, was plucked from the water by the crew of an RAF rescue helicopter and flown to hospital, where A 16-year-old schoolboy was later pronounced dead.
article_snippet.sent: Joshua Smith died after falling from a cliff and plunging into the sea in the coastal town of Berwick-upon-Tweed in Northumberland (pictured)
article_snippet.sent: A major air and sea search and rescue operation was launched after emergency services received reports that someone had fallen from the cliff at Spittal Point, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland.
article_snippet.sent: The coastguard, police, paramedics, firefighters and an RAF rescue helicopter were all scrambled to the scene in early hours of Easter Sunday.
article_snippet.sent: Police have said Police are not treating Joshua's death as suspicious (file picture) RNLI station manager, John Dunn, said crews used torches from the edge of the cliff in a bid to spot the boy after the alarm was raised at around 2.40am. '
article_snippet.sent: Police were just on the edge of the cliff with torches and searchlights trying to spot the guy in the water,' the boy told the Newcastle Chronicle. '
article_snippet.sent: an RAF rescue helicopter was there doing an RAF rescue helicopter job and pulled the boy out of the water pretty quick.'
article_snippet.sent: Joshua, from the Berwick-upon-Tweed area, was plucked from the surf near Spittal Promenade by a crew from RAF Boulmer's search and rescue helicopter and flown to Wansbeck General Hospital, where Joshua later died.
article_snippet.sent: A spokesman for Northumberland Police said: 'At 3.06am police received reports from the ambulance service that a boy had fallen from cliffs at Spittal Point, Berwick. '
article_snippet.sent: Emergency Services attended along with the RNLI and a 16-year-old boy was recovered from the sea. 'a 16-year-old boy was taken to Wansbeck General Hospital where a 16-year-old boy later died. '
highlights_snippet.sent: Joshua Smith, 16, died in hospital after being rescued from the sea .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Fell from a cliff at Berwick-upon-Tweed in the early hours of Easter Sunday .
  