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Seven Snowdon rescues

Seven people were rescued from Mount Snowdon last night in three separate rescues.

In the first rescue two men from Essex, aged 60 and 40, were helped down from Cwm Idwal after wandering on to a dangerous rock face.

Later a team from RAF Valley went to the aid of a 19-year-old girl from Liverpool University who had injured her ankle while descending from the Glyder range near Bethesda. She was brought down before receiving hospital treatment at Bangor.

In the final rescue of the night, four 20-year-old men were helped after finding holes covered up by snow when climbing Tryfan.

Rescuers had to deal with difficult conditions including lightning, snow, hail and rain.

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Three saved in dramatic sea rescue

Lifeboat crews from St Davids have rescued two men and a teenage girl after their yacht got into difficulties.

They had sent out a mayday transmission from their 30ft yacht, stating that they were approximately five nautical miles west of Ramsey Island, while on passage from Milford Haven and Workington Cumbria.

It took the lifeboat 45 minutes to locate the yacht as communications were patchy due to the mast been broken.

Two of those rescued were suffering from hypothermia.

They were taken to Fishguard Harbour.

Experts meet to plan ship salvage operation

Cargo vessel near Colwyn Bay
Plans to salvage the vessel near Colwyn Bay are being discussed Credit: Andrew Price

Police, fire, coastguard and local council officials are meeting at North Wales Police Headquarters to discuss the salvage operation of the stricken tanker which ran aground near Colwyn Bay on Tuesday evening.

ITV Wales understands a salvage expert is on the way to the scene.

One option they might consider would be to patch up the tanker and float it to safety.

The cargo ship has 40,000 litres of fuel in its tanks which may get pumped into road tankers.

The crew of the boat have been taken to a hotel

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