The team's Land Rover was used to take one injured walker from the fell

Two walkers were rescued today after injuring themselves in separate incidents in the Lake District.

Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team went to the aid of a 59-year-old woman from Rotherham who slipped while walking between Howtown and Place Fell on the southern side of Ullswater. And the team was later called to help a 56-year-old man from Lancashire who injured himself while walking with a part of 15 on Arthur’s Pike, north-east of the first incident.

An RAF Sea King helicopter, which was on a training exercise in the area, was called to airlift the woman, who had a suspected broken ankle, to hospital in Carlisle.

The man in the second rescue was treated for an achilles’ injury and taken from the fell by team members to their Land Rover, which then transferred him to a paramedic vehicle for treatment at the Cumberland Infirmary, Carlisle.