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By Bradley Jolly A careless tourist casually puffs a cigarette – as he dangles his feet over the edge of a crumbly 400ft cliff. The alarming moment was snapped on Easter Sunday when visitors descended on Birling Gap, East Sussex, and other tourist hotspots across the UK as temperatures rose. But the man ignored warnings erected at the site about the “fragile” and “soft” chalk – and diced with death on the chalk cliff edge as a result. JJ Waller, who took these shocking pictures, said: “This is almost a daily occurrence despite the warnings. Visitors aren’t aware of how soft the chalk is – and …

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