RESCUERS were called out after a 20-year-old dislocated her knee while hiking in the Lake District.

The woman from Worcestershire slipped while descending from Grisedale Tarn, to the south-east of Thirlmere, with her partner on Friday. 

She twisted her leg, dislocating her knee, with rescuers being called out at around 2.30pm.

A spokesman for Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team (PMRT) said: "Initial reports received by Cumbria Police indicated that the injury may have been far more serious so assistance was requested from an air asset.

"Although it was a fine and sunny day, wind at the scene meant that the Great North Air Ambulance Service helicopter was unable to land."

He said PMRT members were forced to stretcher the casualty down, where a coastguard helicopter collected her and flew her to The James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough.

The incident involved 14 team members and took a total of five hours.