BUDE Coastguard Rescue Team was paged after 12.30pm on Monday by the Coastguard Operations Centre in Falmouth to a report of a 55-year-old casualty with an ankle injury on the coast path near Stanbury Mouth.

On arrival, the team located the casualty, along with her husband and dog, in the valley just south of the stream. Due to the long, steep and very slippery and muddy exit routes, it was decided that the safest form of extrication would be by winching her into the Coastguard Rescue helicopter (Rescue 924), based at Newquay.

Whilst Rescue 924 was en-route, the team were joined by a first responder who attended the casualty.

On arrival, the helicopter paramedic administered pain relief and splinted the casualty’s leg prior to winching her aboard the aircraft. The casualty was then transferred into the waiting land ambulance for her onward journey to Barnstaple Hospital.