THREE people - including a woman stuck up to her thighs in mud - and a dog were plucked to safety from a cliff in a dramatic rescue operation.
Emergency services worked together to rescue the group from a notorious boggy cliff in west Dorset as the tide was rising and the light was fading.
The rescue, which went on for more than three hours, was centred on the cliffs at Black Ven between Charmouth and Lyme Regis, a popular fossil hunting spot known for its mudslides and rockfalls and where people are often caught out by the tide.
It required multiple lifts by a helicopter, ferrying rescuers to the location of the casualties, then bringing people back to safety.