The team stretchers the injured youth from the scene. Photo: Calder Valley SRT

A rescue team proved it knows the ropes after going to the aid of a teenager.

Calder Valley Search and Rescue Team was alerted at 8.30pm on Monday after the 16-year-old injured himself when he fell from a rope swing near Cornholme, Todmorden.

The boy had suffered an open fracture to his ankle in the incident in the West Yorkshire woodland.

The Mytholmroyd-based team attended five similar incidents last year where people had fallen from rope swings and injured themselves.

A spokesman for the rescue team said: “He was treated at the scene by paramedics and then carried on a stretcher down to the main road at Cornholme where he was put into a waiting ambulance which took him to hospital for further treatment.”