A SIX-YEAR-OLD girl amazed doctors after plunging 150ft down cliffs and walking away with only bumps and bruises.

Medical staff could not believe their eyes when Demi-Leigh Tweddle arrived by air ambulance at Scarborough Hospital with no serious injuries. She spent one night in hospital and is now back at the caravan park where her family are on holiday.

Mark Clark, of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency, said: "This girl is a miracle child. She must be made of rubber to have survived a fall of this height."

The cliffs, close to Filey, North Yorkshire, are a notorious accident blackspot, with two deaths in the past two years.

Demi and her three-year-old sister, Ellie, were playing close to the cliff edge, near the Blue Dolphin Caravan Park on Thursday evening, when the youngster slipped.

Ellie watched in horror as her sister plunged down the cliff, before alerting parents Lee, 28, and Susan, 32.

The couple, from Middlesbrough, dashed to the spot where Demi slipped.

Without regard for his own life, the father followed his daughter's trail down the cliff.

The building company boss said: "How I got down that cliff I genuinely don't know. All I could think about was Demi."

The youngster is still in shock but, apart from grazes on her forehead, is in good health.

Her distressed mother alerted the emergency services at about 5.30pm.

Coastguards arrived soon after to find Demi nursing a head wound.

A helicopter was scrambled from RAF Leconfield, and the Scarborough Coastguard Rescue Team also attended.

Paramedics lifted the youngster onto a stretcher from where she had come to rest on the cliff - known as Chimney Hole - and she was quickly flown to hospital.

Mike Puplett, watch manager at Humber Coastguard, which was also alerted, said: "This accident demonstrates the need for constant vigilance when near to cliff edges. Unfortunately, the family will remember their holiday at Filey for all the wrong reasons."

Rescue helicopter captain Squadron Leader Dirk Ransome said yesterday: "The cliffs there are 300ft tall. They drop off vertically then go into a steep grassed slope.

"I think the grass on the slope meant she bounced a small distance.

"She was only part of the way down the cliff and there was another 150ft to go.

"That is a dangerous stretch of cliffs. We are called out to rescues there half a dozen times a year."

Stuart Lane, one of the three-man crew on the inshore lifeboat, said: "The girl was sitting up and was covered in blood. She was holding her arm and complaining of pains in her side.

"She had lots of cuts and bruises, but it is incredible she wasn't hurt even more."

The cliffs have warning notices about the dangers of going close to the edge and there is a wire fence separating the grassy land near the holiday camps and the cliff edge