A teenager has been airlifted to safety after going missing on the coast path in Dorset. Police were called out last night to search for the 13 year old boy. He was last seen leaving Lyme Regis football club to walk home to Charmouth. He was found in undergrowth suffering from cuts and bruises.
He was flown out by the coastguard helicopter because of the difficulty of the terrain and then taken to hospital by ambulance
A Cornish beach where a mother died trying to rescue her two sons was unguarded. Lifeguard cover there had only been lifted a day before the tragedy. The mother was swept out to sea. See Kathy Wardle's full report:
Locals say there had been rip currents at the beach in the past week and warning notices have been put up. The boys, aged 11 and 13 survived.
The family got into difficulty on Northcott Mouth beach near Bude. The RNLI say it will be reviewing its operational hours.
Two people have escaped uninjured after the tractor they were working in tumbled off a cliff in North Cornwall.
The Coastguard received a call from a man on a boat at around 12:45pm who had seen the tractor and trailer fall backwards from a cliff north of Crackington Haven.
The police, Cornwall Fire and Rescue, RNLI, Cornwall Air Ambulance and three coastguard cliff rescue teams were alerted to the incident and a rescue operation began. Nobody was found to be inside the vehicle which is resting on a ledge 150ft down the cliff face.
Two people had been working in the tractor, worth £80,000, in a field on the cliff top.
They managed to scramble unharmed from the vehicle after it started sliding across the land towards the cliff edge.
A ten year old boy is being hailed a hero after he rowed to the rescue of a couple whose sailing boat capsized off Brixham. Stuart Crang's father serves on the Torbay lifeboat. So it seemed natural for his son to help the people whose dinghy was taking in water. John Andrews reports.
The RNLI has issued a major warning to beach-goers after a series of sea rescues.
Read the full storyFootage has emerged of a dramatic rescue off the Dorset coast in which a six-year-old boy was rescued. The child remains in a serious condition in hospital.
A six-year-old child remains in a serious condition after being rescued in a dramatic operation off the Dorset coast. Portland coastguard said boy 'momentarily stopped breathing' after getting into difficulties in the water at Chesil Cove.
He was airlifted to a hospital in Dorchester and has now been transferred to one in Southampton.
The RNLI is warning people of the dangers of the coast after more than twenty people were rescued from one bathing spot in one day.
RNLI lifeguards at Croyde beach rescued 24 people after bathers and bodyboarders were caught in strong rip currents. The casualties, including children, were dragged away from the beach and unable to make it back to shore in the conditions.
RNLI lifeguards carried out several rescues throughout the day (Tuesday July 24th) as people struggled.
