Rescue operation after fall at rural beauty spot

A woman has been rescued from the water at a Yorkshire Dales beauty spot.

North Yorkshire Fire and Yorkshire Service were called to Aysgarth Falls just after midday on Monday after the female fell onto some rocks at the bottom of the falls and was unable to move in the "low-level" water.

Rescue crews used equipment to access her and help her onto a longboard, before helping her out of the water and on to an embankment with the help of a ladder.

She was then taken to hospital by paramedics, the Yorkshire Ambulance Service said.

Aysgarth Falls, a series of three stepped waterfalls, is a popular tourist destination on the River Ure, about seven miles west of Leyburn.

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