Episode 2 Countryside 999

From the Highlands of Scotland to the coast of Cornwall

the Great British countryside is spectacular...

..but we work and play in it at our peril...

..and when things go wrong,

the emergency services race to the rescue...

This chap is having a heart attack.

I'm going to need to get him in quickly.

We've got a cow on the road.

Countryside policing at its finest here(!)

..going hundreds of miles against the clock...

..battling the elements and braving the waves.

HE SCREAMS

From the Welsh valleys to winding country roads,

we'll be right at the heart of the action,

with police fighting crime...

I'm not arguing it, I'm reporting you for it.

..paramedics saving lives...

BABY CRIES

..and lifeguards patrolling the seas.

We're there as the emergency services pull together to

pick up, patch up and protect the public.

This is Countryside 999.

Coming up,

countryside cops get up close and personal at a music festival...

-I've also got a van that can conduct a strip search, OK?

-Yes.

So I'll be looking down your pants.

..the Royal Navy helicopter searches for kids

stranded in the Scottish seas...

-RADIO:

-'We have children in the water at Troon.'

..and school's out in Cornwall

as medics brace themselves for another summer break.

If ten was the worst pain possible and one was no pain at all,

how painful is it?

-Ten.

-A ten.

The Great British countryside,

where many of us head to get away from it all.

But not all of us wants to escape the crowds.

For a growing number, summer in the country means just one thing -

festival time.

But the invasion of revellers can be a huge challenge

for our rural emergency services.

It's summer in Wales

and the small town of Crickhowell is gearing up

for its annual Green Man Festival.

15,000 people are due to gather

for a weekend of music, art, theatre and fireworks.

It's a popular event with a family friendly reputation

and it's Sergeant Owen Dillon's job to make sure it stays that way.

I'm just coming up to 18 years in the force.

I've seen urban policing, I've been involved in that but the fantastic

thing about here is, first of all, our involvement with the community.

We are very much part of the community

when we're rural police officers, and I love the variety.

I could be dealing with mountain rescue one minute, I could deal with

an issue in the river, I could deal with military training.

I could go in and come to work

and deal with something completely different every day.

The festival kicks off in two days' time and

Owen is on his way to meet the organisers.

What I find most satisfying now is working with, you know, people

like the Green Man, working with the organisers,

the security people, the council and all the different agencies

all sort of pulling together and putting on a good event.

Joining Owen for a tour of the site is his boss, Inspector Matt Scrase.

Fiona Stewart is the event organiser and her careful planning has

helped turn the festival into a well-oiled machine.

But it won't be the only well-oiled thing this weekend.

Matt checks there's a sensible alcohol policy in place.

That over there is some of the bars.

There's a rum shack and on the other side is a general bar

-on that side as well.

-Selling to intoxicated persons -

you're quite happy that everybody is fully briefed on that

if there are...

Every single bar has a qualified licensee there individually.

But it's not just folk inside the grounds the teams have to

look out for.

Gate crashers can be a problem and they'll do anything to sneak in.

Three, maybe four years ago,

we had an issue with people trying to swim across and get over the fence.

A guy got in the river, got lost

when he was intoxicated, so it was nothing to do with the event

but there was a few learning points from there.

So what's happening now is the security guards are all carrying

throw lines for us so if there's any issues on the river,

they've actually got a sort of first response for us.

Crowd safety is a big priority, especially as this year

they're expecting a bumper turnout.

15,000 people coming plus then the people already here.

-22,000 for the site.

-Yeah.

-We've got about 4,000 workers and staff.

If you add it to Crickhowell and Llangynidr

and all of a sudden the population...

-You got a big area and a lot of people in.

-Yeah.

Owen's masterminded the police presence here

for the last four years.

There's no sort of extra costing as such with the policing

because all I've done is tweaked a few of the local shifts

and then we've covered it from the existing staffing.

The festival highlight is a massive 8m high Green Man that took

a team of 12 nine days to build.

And to celebrate the achievement, they're going to burn him down.

-This... This is burnt. Is it about midnight you do it, Fiona?

-Yeah.

Yeah. On Sunday, at midnight, this is effectively

the closing of the festival.

All that work goes up in flames.

Matt can't resist taking a closer look.

Very impressive.

-Have you seen The Wicker Man, sir?

-Yeah, I have.

LAUGHTER

It's probably the best one we've seen, that one. It's good.

It seems such a shame to burn it.

As far as the police are concerned, it's so far, so good.

I'm very positive. I've been involved in a number.

This is the fourth one I've supervised as a sergeant running it.

I see the improvement every year

and I'm confident this is a very professionally run event

and we can just sort of stay in the background and support them.

It might be hunky-dory inside...

..but later, outside the event, it's about to get a little less friendly.

You've put something down there, haven't you? Just keep your hand...

No, keep your hand still.

The countryside is a place of escape and adventure...

..a giant playground for kids to explore...

..where summer holidays seem to last forever...

..as long as no-one gets hurt.

The Urgent Care Centre in Penzance is specially geared up to

deal with all the minor mishaps that summer holidays bring.

And as the bucket and spade brigade arrive

in their thousands, August is a busy time for bumps and scrapes.

On shift today is emergency nurse practitioner Louise Silver.

A young holiday-maker has just arrived.

He's fallen off a swing and badly damaged his arm.

Oh, sweetheart.

Oh, come on in. What have you done to yourself?

Let's have a little look at you in here. I'm Louise. What's your name?

-Angus.

-Angus. Oh, right, OK. Come on in, Mam. Come and take a seat.

-Thank you very much.

-So, what have you done to yourself, Angus?

-Um...

Oh, yes. All right, my darling.

The first thing I'm going to do, I'm going

to weigh you so we can give some really good painkillers, all right?

I'll just go and get that...

What we do is we use intranasal diamorphine for children

who are in a lot of pain and it's really good

because it means we can give them

diamorphine into the nose instead of having an injection

and it works really, really well and within a few minutes.

But the first thing we need to do is weigh...weigh Angus.

Louise will use Angus's weight

to work out how much painkiller he needs.

33kg. That's great. Well done, my darling.

Are you on holiday or do you live down here?

Summer holiday.

You're on your summer holiday?

Eight-year-old Angus and his family were camping 25 miles

away on the remote Lizard Peninsula when disaster struck.

-So it's your elbow, isn't it, really?

-Yeah.

Right, silly question but, if ten was the worst pain

-possible and one was no pain at all, how painful is it?

-Ten.

-A ten.

All right. Let's get you some pain relief.

Are you going to give me an injection?

This won't be an injection. It's little drops we put into your nose.

All right, my darling.

Are you all right? And he's normally fit and well, is he?

It's tough on mum Helen, too.

We'll get it sorted.

There's nothing that can't be fixed. All right?

All right? That'll help.

Louise briefs Dr Neil Davidson,

who'll take a closer look at Angus's arm.

So, he was 33kg so I gave him 3.5 of diamorphine.

HE CRIES

-Hello. I'm Dr Davidson.

-Hello.

-What's happened?

I presume he's just jumped off the swing

and slipped and caught his arm.

He came running over with it saying, "I've broken it

"because I heard it go crack." It's been quite a journey.

-Can you show me where it's most sore. Is it just here?

-No.

-Up here?

-No, right on the joint of the elbow.

-Right on the elbow. OK.

Can I just look at your other elbow just to see? OK.

-Once you're more comfortable, we'll send you down for an X-ray, OK?

-OK.

I'm sure he's fractured his elbow.

'I'm also a little bit worried about below the elbow cos there's

'clearly swelling in the upper forearm as well and he's very tender'

there so we need to get it X-rayed

but we need to get his pain relief sorted first. We can't send him down

to the X-ray department screaming like that, poor little chap.

Angus is still in a lot of pain

and he's worried his injury might knock his future plans for six.

Oh, Angus. You've got years and years ahead of you, OK?

He wants to be a professional cricketer.

He's worried that this will affect his chances.

What would you want to do if you can't be a cricketer?

Oh, Steve Backshall. Deadly 60. He wants to be an adventurer.

He is doing well at the moment, aren't you?

Getting into enough scrapes for an adventurer.

The budding adventurer is being very brave

but the painkillers don't seem to be helping.

-Mummy.

-Yeah?

-Ow.

-I can't do anything more for you, OK?

The doctor's just waiting to get you into X-ray.

It should start very soon.

-Is that any better at all?

-Not a lot.

-Not a lot.

We're probably getting

fairly close to the point where he needs a bit more.

It hasn't had much effect, has it? Unfortunately. It's unusual.

It's been nearly two hours since Angus had his accident.

He urgently needs an X-ray to see just how bad his arm is.

But the team can't move them until they get on top of his pain.

Back in Wales,

Dyfed-Powys Police are gearing up for the four-day Green Man Festival.

Earlier, Sergeant Owen Dillon

and Inspector Mark Scrase had a little taste of what to expect.

-Have you seen The Wicker Man, sir?

-Yeah.

LAUGHTER

With thousands of revellers due to descend,

it's time to get Operation Martian under way.

That's Martian as in little green man.

It's an important event, as you know. This is a family event.

There will be a lot of people,

respectable people, that will be turning up.

We want everybody to enjoy it in the safest possible way.

And safe means legal.

Today, Owen and the team will be carrying out

stop and search on the roads around the festival.

We don't want it to become a drugs festival, all right?

The event management security work very hard to make sure

it isn't a drugs fest.

Spread the message that we don't want drugs coming here.

If you've got grounds then we go for a search

and what I want you to be doing is looking at physical characteristics.

The eyes, pinpointed, dilated pupils, skin pallor,

I want you to be looking at that sort of thing.

Looking at nervous and furtive behaviour, looking for paraphernalia.

OK, then, everyone? Happy with that?

We are on our way now to run a stop search operation for people

coming into the area.

Today, the majority of the people arrive

so, numbers-wise, it will be a busy day.

The reports I'm getting in from people is it's damn hard to find

drugs in the event, which is brilliant

and it shows that, between us running this and the security staff

and the ethos of the event, there isn't many drug dealers.

But just in case they do find anything dodgy,

Owen's well-prepared.

I've got two dog handlers and they've got drugs dogs and then I've got four

traffic officers and they're all sort of particularly gifted in searching

and very knowledgeable on searching for and identifying controlled drugs.

There's only one thing missing.

Right, what we need now is some people.

Cue the campers.

Is there anything in the vehicle that shouldn't be. No?

You're welcome to search.

So you've got tickets to go and you've got tickets

and you're just dropping them off. I won't hold you up any longer.

-OK, thank you.

-You continue your journey.

It's not long before Owen clocks some suspicious behaviour.

The guy's fiddling on the right-hand side.

PC Gareth Earp is on the case.

-Is there anything in the vehicle that shouldn't be?

-Nothing at all.

Nothing at all? OK. When we saw you, when you saw us,

you started fiddling around on your right-hand side.

You just see a bit nervous to me at the moment, that's all.

You've gone a bit pale. It was chewing gum, was it? OK.

I'm going to search you and the vehicle.

If you've got something you shouldn't and you hand it to us now

and save us the hassle, we'll try our best to deal with it.

You've put something down there. Just keep your hand...

-No, keep your hands still.

-I was going to give him what he wanted.

Yeah, yeah, but slowly for me, all right? Thank you.

You were giving all the signals. You've gone very pale. What is it?

-They're pills.

-If you come with me, mate, then.

Just come and sit in the van.

That's the classic, what we are trained to look for.

As soon as the guy came in, the two of us

spotted straightaway the sudden furtive movement with the right hand

and as soon as we're talking to him he's shaking physically,

worried about the fact we was talking to him and lo and behold

he's got drugs so, you know, it's classic for what we're looking for.

And the dog makes sure there's no more stashed away.

Meanwhile, PC Dai Morgan pulls over a van.

The driver comes clean straightaway.

What have you got?

-I've got a couple of wraps here.

-What's in it?

-Ecstasy.

-Ecstasy.

-Ecstasy.

-OK. Right. Oh, right, OK.

What's going to happen now is my colleague will do

a check on the computer for the police national computer.

It depends who you are,

you know, what your previous convictions and history is

and also if we can confirm who you are then what'll happen is

you're obviously going to have to be dealt with.

We can either deal with it today but I'd rather let you go to

the event and we'll deal with you by being street bailed.

-That's MDMA crystals, is it?

-MDMA, is it?

Yeah, ecstasy tablets as well. Cool.

Is there anything else in the vehicle? We'll put a dog through.

If there's anything else, you may as well hand it over.

Looks like there's more.

All right, OK.

We can deal with that by way of a cannabis warning

but then obviously, the ecstasy, you'll have to come in. All right?

If you go with my colleague, then,

to the van, we'll sort everything out there.

He said he was willing to provide a search for me so I took him

round the back of the vehicle, I've gone through his pockets,

I've taken his leather wallet out

and basically then I found a couple of wraps of folded paper.

This is what I found in his wallet.

I've asked the gentleman what they are and he informed me

then that they were ecstasy.

That's Class A so we couldn't deal with him by way of a street caution

as we can for cannabis so what I've done now, I've street bailed him.

I've formally arrested him, street bailed him,

taken all his details and he's been bailed back now to Brecon

police station, Saturday afternoon.

The driver will still get to enjoy the festival

but he's not off the hook.

The least he'll get away with is a formal caution.

So, a busy morning for the bobbies

and, with queues building, it's about to get even more hectic.

Later, it's more stop and searches in South Wales...

Do you have anything in the car -

the love bus - that you shouldn't have?

HE WAILS

..tough cookie Angus faces his fears...

People say a lot worse, you know.

..but first, search and rescue race to two girls trapped on rocks

and in danger of drowning.

Scotland - over 6,000 miles of rugged coastline.

Its West Coast is some of the most windswept and beautiful,

buffeted by Atlantic rollers and fast-changing weather fronts.

Stunning beaches, but dangerous seas.

It's also home to Britain's busiest search and rescue helicopter -

HMS Gannet.

Flying from Prestwick Airport in Ayrshire, the Royal Navy team

cover the wildest parts of Scotland and Northern England.

But you don't rescue over 200 people a year without practising.

Today, the crew are carrying out some routine checks.

On shift, navigator Rob Suckling and paramedic Dave Rigg.

They're barely airborne when an emergency call comes through.

-RADIO:

-'177 Kinloss Rescue...'

Two children are trapped on rocks in open sea off Troon.

It's a red alert situation.

With young lives at risk, there's no time to lose.

Thankfully, the team don't have to fly far,

just seven miles north to the beach between Troon and Irvine.

A bad situation has just got worse.

It seems more people could be trapped

and there's confusion over their whereabouts.

Dave opens the door to get a better look at the beach.

Still no sign of the children.

It may be the height of summer

but August is a dangerous month for swimmers -

the second highest for fatalities.

They're worried they're heading the wrong way.

It sounds like the two girls may have made it ashore but

the crew need to make a U-turn to check there's no-one else trapped

and there's a worrying update on the children's condition.

The girls are now with local coastguards

but paramedic Dave's concerned about their injuries.

With the ambulance still on its way there,

Rob and Dave are the nearest paramedics to the scene.

-RADIO:

-'Belfast Ardrossan five, again it looks like he has actually

'landed on the beach at this time, over.'

You deal with it, I'll just bring the kit.

Dave grabs his first response bag and rushes to help.

He doesn't yet know what state the girls are in.

Back in Cornwall, emergency nurse Louise

and the team at the Urgent Care Centre have been desperately

trying to ease eight-year-old Angus's pain.

I don't know, young man. Holidays are meant to be fun, aren't they?

Angus has a suspected fractured arm.

He needs an X-ray to confirm this but they can't move him

until they've got his pain under control.

We need to get him settled down.

We're going to give him some, what they call gas and air, Entonox,

first cos that'll work straightaway

and then we'll give him... put a little cannula into a vein

in his right arm and we'll give him a dose of morphine.

But poor Angus isn't a fan of needles.

Does it hurt?

All needles hurt a little bit, OK? So I won't lie. It will hurt a bit.

But once we give you the painkiller through that injection,

you'll be glad we did it.

Now, I know it's tempting to wiggle

but I need you to keep really still for us.

OK? Good lad.

-DR DAVIDSON:

-OK, very brave, little scratch.

-Ow.

-HELEN:

-Trying not to what, sorry?

-You can say, "Ow."

People say a lot worse, you know.

It's been an agonisingly long morning for Angus and mum Helen.

We came from the Lizard,

which is obviously almost as far as you can go.

We probably left about quarter past 11.

It was certainly an hour before we got here.

He just likes being the highest on the swing

and the fastest on the bike and...

..good swimmer and all the rest of it.

-Right. Do you want a cup of tea?

-Thanks very much.

You're not having a very good week on your holiday.

Cup of tea solves everything.

Finally, Angus is taken for his X-ray.

Good boy. You're doing fantastic.

The morphine has taken the edge off the pain but it's still a struggle.

No. No more!

The results come back and it's not good.

-DR DAVIDSON:

-Ouch.

So, he's got a double fracture at his elbow.

That's why it was so painful for him.

And this bit here shouldn't be sitting like that.

His elbow, instead of stopping there, as mine does,

it's gone back further and two bits have broken off,

which was the loud crack he heard, poor chap.

Neil phones the orthopaedic department at Truro for advice.

Hello. Dr Davidson.

This is a young man who was playing on a swing, fell off the swing and

hyperextended his elbow, heard a loud crack,

has been in a lot of pain. He's eight.

The doctor's just going to have a look at your X-rays

and then we'll come and let you know what the verdict is.

-DR DAVIDSON:

-'OK, thank you.'

What they'd like us to do is to put him into a back slab.

That's a plaster that sort of goes right down the outside of

the arm and along the forearm.

The specialists in Truro think his forearm might be dislocated.

-Right, what we can see are two fractures.

-OK.

-He's broken it in two places, definitely.

-Right.

And he's obviously got a fracture

on the end of the bigger bone in the forearm.

-You did a good job then.

-Well, not good.

-No, no.

Angus will have to go to Truro to get his arm reset.

-Are you going to do the plaster?

-We're going to plaster now.

-OK.

We are going to be as gentle as we can

but we have got to get on and do it, all right?

And I tell you, once this is on, it will feel a lot better.

The half plaster is only temporary.

So, this is half a plaster.

If we put on a full plaster, it wouldn't accommodate for any

swelling and it and it would become too tight around his arm.

How long do I have to keep it on for?

Well, my darling, the usual rule is, for a broken bone,

about four to six weeks, really.

You won't have this one on for four to six weeks,

you'll have a much lighter plaster on after this one.

What they need to do is a little anaesthetic so you go to sleep

and then they'll tweak it a little bit, move it around

until they are happy with the position

and then replaster it and wake you up.

All right? You won't know anything about it.

There we go. All right?

It's another road trip for Helen and Angus.

-How are you feeling, young man?

-Erm, better.

You're 100 per cent better than when you came in.

Gosh! Couldn't get much worse!

Could you?

Angus, let's get these on.

I need to get you out to the car.

As they are not an ambulance priority, Helen decides

the best option is to drive the 30 miles to Truro.

More adventures for budding explorer Angus.

But probably not the ones he's hoped for.

Yeah.

My arm still really, really hurts.

I've got three breaks in my arm.

I'm changing hospital to be put to sleep

and have my arm moved around a bit.

And it's a summer break that Mum won't forget in a hurry either.

-Thanks very much.

-You're welcome. I hope your next holiday

is more successful.

I think we're going to go home tomorrow!

THEY LAUGH

-I don't think I can take much more. Thanks very much. Bye.

-Bye.

Back in Wales, the crowds are arriving for the Green Man Festival.

Can you pop in there, please?

The police have had a busy morning carrying out

stop and searches on the surrounding roads.

Scores on the door.

One street bail for a class A,

four cannabis warnings

and one P and D for cannabis.

We've got about seven seizures so far.

All for minor possession of cannabis,

MDMA and ecstasy.

So we are finding...

Nothing big, just small personal amounts for the event.

But the majority of festivalgoers are law-abiding...

..choosing to get their kicks in other ways.

Standard question everybody gets asked.

Do you have anything in the car - the Love Bus -

that you shouldn't have?

-Apart from some random performance props.

-Nothing wrong with that!

Have you got anything you shouldn't have?

PASSING CAR DROWNS SPEECH

We're doing a cowboy act in there!

-A plastic pistol...

-Are you Calamity Jane?

We are doing a West Country, Wild West, Wall of Shame, which involves

taking photos of people, moustaching them up and making them look silly.

-No drugs or anything?

-I've got my painkillers, my paracetamol.

-That's it.

-Nothing illegal?

-No.

-I've got sore throat tablets.

-I'll leave you to it. Enjoy your weekend.

-Thank you very much.

-Enjoying the rest of it.

-Try not to shoot anyone.

INDISTINCT

With the crowds building,

Owen and the team work quickly to get through

as many cars as possible.

-Smell the purse.

-Yeah. Ooh! Whose purse is this? Is this yours?

-Some come clean straightaway.

-We found herbal cannabis and a joint.

A person has just given us brownies made with cannabis.

While others need a bit of gentle persuasion.

I've also got a van, I can conduct a strip search, OK?

I'll be looking down your pants.

Meanwhile, PC Leighton Phillips has sniffed out

another suspicious stash.

-There's a bit of MDMA.

-A gram of MDMA.

-And two pills.

-And two pills.

Shamed Matt into buying them!

Can you recover yours for me, please, sir?

-Is this all we're going to find in this vehicle? BOTH:

-Yeah.

-I'm not going to find anything else in here at all? BOTH:

-No.

-It should be down here somewhere.

-It's better you recover it

than the dog because the dog will ruin it.

Anything?

I've got one with possession of MDMA and some pills. Ecstasy.

And I got this gentleman with some weed, some pills and some MDMA.

-Where are you both from?

-Cardiff.

-Have you got your driving licences with you?

-Yeah.

-Both of you?

-Yes.

-Thank you.

-Five pills and a gram of MDMA.

-And a bit of weed.

INDISTINCT

I'm a man of my word. You can go and enjoy your event.

I won't take you into custody or arrest you now.

I've told you I won't and I won't.

Within the next week or so I'll need you to come back to Brecon

to speak to me in relation to this matter.

All right?

The lads didn't want to 'fess up at first.

But Leighton has a bit of a nose for the job.

That's for you. Your copy.

They were quite reluctant to start but you can tell by

sort of non-verbal communication with those people if they are lying.

I'm quite good at spotting it.

I sensed they were lying to me and then they give up the game

and they said, "Yeah we've got controlled drugs in the boot."

They came to the boot and handed it over to me.

It was enough there for personal consumption.

There was no evidence to suggest they were dealing the drugs.

No scales, no large amounts of cash.

They're not known to us on the Police National Computer

so I'm satisfied they were just for personal use, between themselves.

After several hours' stopping and searching,

Owen and the team finally call it a day.

Look after yourselves. Have a good weekend. Be careful.

It's time to check the haul.

A bit of herbal, resin, and a ready-made joint.

There's a few wraps in there.

Some more powder. Possibly going to be meow meow.

It's been a good day for us.

Seizures from today have predominantly been herbal cannabis.

At least two given on-the-spot fines for possession of cannabis.

There's been a few people arrested.

Some dealt with today and

the others street bailed until tomorrow or the day after.

But it's a smaller haul than last year

so Owen's chuffed with the results.

The message is pretty much hitting home, don't bring drugs here,

and people have chanced their arm with bits of possession

but most of these are first-time offenders

Hopefully, they won't bring anything next year.

Meanwhile, this year, it's time for crowds to kick back,

chill out and have some good clean festival fun in the sun.

From stop and search to search and rescue.

Earlier, in Ayrshire, the Royal Navy helicopter raced to rescue

two girls trapped on treacherous rocks off Irvine beach.

The children, thankfully, are now onshore

but they've had a rough time in the water.

Paramedics Dave Rigg and Rob Suckling

are on the scene straightaway,

checking for shock and injuries.

It was a terrifying experience for local lasses 11-year-old Jordan

and 12-year-old Amy.

They'd been paddling fully clothed when they were pulled in by waves.

On our arrival we saw the people on the ground.

We decided to land on the beach nearby.

We jumped out, went over to the casualties to find out

exactly what had happened.

They explained that they'd been on this spit of land,

the water had taken their legs away, they'd been washed in

and with the turbulence and struggling to try and get out,

they were heavily cut up from the rocks.

The girls are really cold.

The bracing Scottish summer breeze isn't helping.

Has anyone got a spare jacket we can use to put over her?

The pair were spotted by quick-thinking passer-by Fiona.

We'd come down a walk and walked to the bottom.

We realised there were some kids in the water.

A first we thought they were playing

but we realised the tide was getting high and it could be dangerous.

We quickly realised there was two girls and they couldn't get out.

It was very scary very quickly.

I don't think they realised the danger they were in.

Amy has some nasty cuts. Both girls could be suffering from shock.

The rescue team decide to get them to the nearest hospital quickly.

Once on board, the girls are wrapped up warm. It's been a lucky escape.

What started as a bit of fun quickly turned nasty.

It could have all ended very differently.

Even though the girls were badly cut up, fortunately for them,

they weren't caught in any riptide or anything like that,

which could have easily took them under,

dragged them into deeper water where they would have been

in more difficulty.

At the time, the water was quite shallow and luckily,

with the assistance of people around, they were out quite quickly.

For the Royal Navy team, every rescue means giving their all.

Especially when children are involved.

As soon as we discovered the two casualties were children,

even though it shouldn't affect

your way of thinking, it always does change your mindset.

People do tend to go that little bit further to ensure that

children are all right

and that they are safe and well as quickly as possible.

Thankfully, this time, no-one had to be winched from the water.

It's only a five-minute journey to Crosshouse Hospital in Kilmarnock.

They'll both be fine. It's the shock of being in the water

and being battered by the waves onto the rocks.

Why they were in the water in their clothes, I've no idea.

They said they went into the water, swimming,

the wave broke onto them and pushed them onto the rocks

and they got rolled around in the surf.

Fully dressed and dressed for the occasion.

The girls are taken to a waiting ambulance.

It's job done for the Royal Navy search and rescue team.

It's been all go for the emergency services in Britain's rural areas.

After their swimming scare,

Jordan and Amy were kept in hospital a few hours and then allowed home.

They were lucky to get away with just minor cuts and scrapes.

Eight-year-old Angus spent two nights in Truro Hospital

after having his arm reset.

The budding explorer has another five weeks in plaster before he can

resume his adventures.

And a good time was had by all at the Green Man Festival.

Those found with cannabis received a warning at the side of the road.

The rest got police cautions in custody.

And you thought it was quiet in the countryside.