EMERGENCY services rescued a middle-aged woman who fell and injured her leg on a steep and muddy Wye Valley path.

Fire crews from Whitchurch and Ross-on-Wye rushed to the scene near Goodrich around 1.30pm on Easter Sunday (April 1), where a woman in her 50s had suffered a suspected broken knee.

The West Midlands Ambulance Service were also called with a hazardous area response team and a paramedic office attending, as the patient was in a difficult position on the slippery steep path, around a quarter of a mile below the nearest road.

A WMAS spokesman said the patient was given pain relief and the fracture stabilised before ambulance and fire crews carried the woman half way up the slope before they were able to stretcher her back to the ambulance where she was taken to Hereford Hospital.

They were then alerted to a young girl having a fit in a car parked near to Whitchurch Primary School, opposite the village fire station.

Mike Duggan from WMAS tweeted: “The child was having a febrile convulsion due to a high temp. Great response from @HWFireWchurch Ff who were returning from the previous call out.”