The Patterdale team used its Land Rover to rescue the family from the fells

A six-month-old baby was among a family group that was rescued from a Lake District fell.

Police alerted mountain rescuers after a mother and father and their six children got lost on the hills above Ullswater  on Sunday afternoon.

Members of the Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team got the call to help at 4.45pm after the holidaying family from Manchester became disoriented and called for help to get down off the fell.

A spokesperson for the team said: “The parents and six children, aged from six months to nine years old, were located by the team and brought back down to Pooley Bridge by Land Rover. The family were cold but unhurt.”

The family is staying at Swarthbeck, on the eastern shore of Ullswater.