Walker injured near Bleaklow Bomber site stretchered to safety

Glossop Mountain Rescue and paramedics from the North West Ambulance Service carried the injured walker

A walker has been stretchered to safety after spraining their ankle near a well-known Peak District site.

Glossop Mountain Rescue Team and two paramedics went to help the walker near the Bleaklow Bomber site in Derbyshire at about 13:15 GMT on Saturday.

They were carried about two miles (3km) to the A57 before going to hospital.

At the same time, a second mountain rescue team went to two walkers who needed help on the Kinder Scout path, about eight miles (13km) to the south.

A Kinder Mountain Rescue Team representative said they were called out at about 14:30 to the pair, who had been following a route which took them up Red Brook on to the Kinder Edge path, but had "reached a point where they couldn't go up or down".

Kinder Mountain Rescue Team was also called out on Saturday

They said one of them had aggravated a knee injury and he was "struggling to walk".

"We deployed Kinder 1 to assess the walkers and their situation, while the rest of the team prepared the rope rescue equipment," they said.

However, they said a passing group, who were scrambling up Red Brook, came across the pair and helped them to a path using their rope.

They added that the injured man was given pain relief and both were "escorted on an easy route" back to Edale Cross, before being given a lift back to their vehicle at Bowden Bridge.