A man who died after being found unconscious on the side of the road in St Keverne has been named locally as Chris Warman.

CPR was administered by a member of the Porthoustock Coastguard Rescue Team, who happened to live nearby, shortly after Mr Warman was found just before 11pm on Sunday (June 17) night.

Fire co-responders then arrived and continued CPR before he was taken away in an ambulance.

A helicopter ambulance was also called and landed in the nearby St Keverne playing fields, but was eventually stood down.

A spokesman from the coastguard team said: "A member of our team was alerted to a casualty outside of their home who was unconscious on the side of the road.

"On assessing the casualty it was found they were not breathing nor had a pulse, with the ambulance under way the team member started CPR using a near by defibrillator.

"Shortly after the local fire co-responders arrived when they all continued CPR, with this in mind the ambulance asked the coastguard ops room to task R924 [helicopter] when the remainder of the team were paged to land in a nearby football field.

"Whilst some members went to land R924 other team members continued to help with CPR until the casualty was placed onto awaiting ambulance to be transported to hospital.

"Team stood down and returned to base at 1.30am. Our thoughts are with family and friends at this time."

Mr Warman was well known in the village and was a regular in both the pubs.