Lifeboat crew rescues woman and injured man on Isle of Wight

Cowes RNLI lifeboat and the Isle of Wight coastguard teams were deployed after the young woman called the emergency services just after midnight.

The woman and a man were attempting to walk from Thorness to Gurnard when they became trapped by the incoming tide.

Coastguard crews escorted the young woman along a cliff path to Gurnard Luck, where she was attended by paramedics.

The young man, a Polish resident of Cowes, had cut his leg while attempting to climb a rocky cliff and was rescued by a lifeboat crew.

He was put on a stretcher aboard the lifeboat, which delivered him to Trinity Landing, Cowes, where he was transferred to a waiting ambulance.

A spokeswoman for HM Coastguard said: ‘The casualty was handed to an ambulance, but he refused to go to hospital.’

The lifeboat returned to station just after 2 am.

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