BREAKING NEWS British woman in her 20s 'is found dead behind church during family holiday to France'
The woman, who has not been named, is understood to have been on holiday in Normandy at the time of her death.
She was found around 9am this morning on rocks behind the St-Nicolas church in Barfleur, where she was reportedly staying with family in a rented cottage.
Criminal investigators joined forensic and research reams, as well as gendarmerie, at the scene before the body was removed for autopsy this afternoon.
Barfleur is a small fishing village of some 700 residents in the north of France, largely untouched by tourism and rated one of the country's most attractive communes.
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