VOLUNTEERS from the Severn Area Rescue Association (SARA) at Beachley are used to answering distress calls but the latest one was a little unusual.

Adam Short is walking 10,000 miles around the coast of Britain in aid of Save the Children and the RNLI (Royal National Lifeboat Institution) and called in at the SARA station.

He receives supplies every week during the UK Coastal Trek challenge but things went a little awry with the expected package of food being delivered to Chepstow Post Office after he crossed the Severn Bridge.

Stuck in Burnham-on-Sea without the crucial supplies he put out an appeal on social media for help and got a response from Haydn Lyall of SARA and his wife Virginia.

Not only did they take the package over to Somerset, when they realised it was full of dehydrated food they took him to a local cafe and bought him a hot meal and an ice cream.

Appropriately Haydn and Virginia handed over the package at the search and rescue hovercraft at Burnham.

To find out more about Adam Short's trek visit http://www.uk-coastal-trek.com">www.uk-coastal-trek.com.