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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.
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.
COASTGUARDS were called amid concerns for a woman trapped by tide in a rock fall area on the Jurassic coast. The woman was spotted at an area of recent rock fall near Hive Beach, Burton Bradstock, on Tuesday afternoon. A spokesman for West Bay Coastguard said: Coastguards at Hive Beach received a call from Solent Coastguard NMOC (National Maritime Operations Centre) to reports of a female trapped by the tide in the area of the new rockfall, just to the West of Hive Beach. The report had been relayed through the NCI Lookout (National Coastwatch) on Hive Beach. Following the initial alert, another call came in to update coastguards on the situation.