CAVE rescue volunteers enjoying Saturday's fine weather twice came to the rescue of walkers in the Yorkshire Three Peaks.

In the first incident, a 12-year-old boy was airlifted off Ingleborough at around 2pm after injuring his ankle close to the summit.

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A (CRO) member who was walking in the area at the time, raised the alarm before using his own emergency equipment to keep the walker warm.

Team members then carried the boy from his position, 50 metres from the summit, to a Yorkshire Air Ambulance, which had been requested because of the cold conditions.

He was flown to Horton in Ribblesdale playing fields to a waiting road ambulance, and his companion was accompanied down to the team vehicles near Crina Bottom before being taken back to their accommodation in Chapel-le-Dale.

Before the rescue was concluded, a second call was received at just after 4pm to go to the aid of a 32-year-old woman who had suffered a knee cap dislocation close to the main path from the trig point at Penyghent.

The initial call was again put in by another CRO member who was able to provide spare clothing and encourage other members of her group to begin to move her back down the hill.

A CRO spokesman said: "With his support, they had progressed to within about 250m of the top of Horton Scar Lane, when the CRO team arrived. The casualty was helped into a team vehicle and taken down to the main car park in Horton, to wait for a road ambulance. The woman, and her companion, then decided to drive to the hospital and she was helped into the car by members."