Episode 9 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...

He's come off and he's got his leg trapped underneath him.

Oh, man.

Oh, this is a nightmare.

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

..battling the elements and braving the waves.

From the Welsh valleys

to winding country roads,

we'll be right at the heart of the action

with police fighting crime...

I am tinkering on seizing the vehicle.

..paramedics saving lives...

-THE 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,

in Scotland,

the crew of HMS Gannet race to a badly hurt mountain biker...

He's come off and he's got his leg trapped underneath him

and he's got quite a nasty open fracture to the tib and fib.

..in Penzance,

a fisherman gets that sinking feeling...

So I managed to catch myself as the biggest fish of the day.

..and in Wales, one policeman gets a real buzz out of his job.

You come up here, I don't know about you...

I feel all warm, like.

It's weird, I can't describe it.

Oh, I love it. It's gorgeous, man.

One of the great attractions of the British countryside

is the stunning landscape.

Nowhere more so than in Scotland,

where huge mountain ranges contrast with remote islands.

For the inhabitants of these far flung islands,

getting help when disaster strikes isn't always straightforward.

Ready for action 24 hours a day, all year round,

are the Royal Navy Search and Rescue teams from HMS Gannet.

They do the dramatic stuff...

..and they also provide a vital hospital transfer service

to these isolated communities.

Today, the Gannet guys are on a training mission

when a call comes in from the Isle of Arran.

A pulmonary embolism is a blood clot on the lung

and can be life-threatening.

And this patient is on Arran,

15 miles off the west coast of Scotland.

There's a small hospital on the island

but to get to the nearest major hospital by road and ferry

you're looking at a two hour trip, minimum.

Gannet's Sea King helicopter, with its five-strong crew,

including paramedic and winchman Taff Ashman,

can do it in a fraction of the time.

-RADIO:

-Will do.

-BEEPING

-Happy there, sir?

-Yeah, happy there.

Three,

two, one...

Down.

Taff and his colleague Alan 'Speedy' Speed

get the lowdown on the patient, Bart.

With a condition like this,

it's all about getting the right specialist treatment, fast.

OK.

INDISTINCT

Just 60 minutes after the call out,

Bart is in the air and on his way.

A quarter of an hour after leaving Arran,

Bart is handed over

to the paramedics at Crosshouse Hospital, Kilmarnock.

-Pain on the right hand side.

-Put that on your finger, Sir.

And it's back to base for the Gannet boys.

Well, that's what they think!

No sooner have they landed back at base

than another call comes in.

Roger, that's all copied. We're just re-fuelling now.

And give us the details. We're in the building, over.

The call out is to Dumbarton, about 30 miles north of base,

to help rescue a badly injured mountain biker.

But he's in a really awkward spot.

350 miles south,

Cornwall's rugged moors and coastline

make it a holiday haven for summer sports.

From fishing to cliff-climbing...

..boarding to biking,

there's plenty of scope for good clean fun.

But Cornwall is also party central,

never more so than on a bank holiday weekend.

And whatever the problem,

it's the West Cornwall Hospital in Penzance

that picks up the pieces.

It's run by hospital doctors

and specially trained GPs and nurses.

This weekend nurse practitioner Belinda Brint

has been shipped in from Exeter's emergency department

to help look after the revellers.

All right?

Likely lads Kevin and Daniel

have fully flung themselves into the bank holiday mayhem.

Come and have a seat, all right?

After a night on the tiles,

chef Kevin has a deep cut on his face.

I understand you've been punched in the face.

By...

It says Hells Angel.

That's what it says, "by a Hells Angel."

-No...

-You want to tell me what happened?

Yeah, I was in club last night.

There was a bit of an altercation and I got punched. That's it.

It's just...

I think he had something in his hand

cos it's far too... It's more of a cut.

So I think he probably had a key in his hand or something.

Were you knocked out at all?

Not that I know of.

I don't know. I can't really remember much.

Had you been drinking a lot?

Yeah. Yeah, I was out - it was a work mate's birthday.

But your friends didn't say

that you were out on the floor for a long time or...?

No, no, no.

-No other injury?

-No, no.

-You were knocked flat over.

-Err...I don't know.

It's a bad case of the morning after the night before.

I am going to give it a good clean up and reassess it.

But I think to close it properly,

I need to assess to get the minimal scarring for it.

28-year-old Kevin is keen to get treated quickly.

I've got work in like an hour. I've got to look presentable.

I'm a chef.

and I'm in the public eye,

so having something like that on my face isn't good.

Cleaning the cut will be painful

but luckily friend Daniel is on hand for moral support.

You'll be all right, big strong lad like you, Kevin.

But in cleaning the wound,

Belinda finds a second cut.

No, that's going to need suturing.

-What, stitching?

-Yeah.

And a spot of local anaesthetic won't go amiss.

It hurts now. It weren't hurting but now it hurts.

-It's pissing with blood now, man!

-Is it?

Mate Daniel's gone a bit green about the gills

at the sight of the blood.

All right. Just head back, relax for me.

Just a bit of local anaesthetic going in.

Or maybe it's the needle that's worrying him.

Wow, that's pretty instant, isn't it?

All right, how's that feeling?

Err...

-Can't really feel it.

-Numb?

-Yeah, numb.

-Good.

All right, just relax for me.

Closing the wound on Kevin's face will help it heal faster

and keep scarring to a minimum.

-Ready?

-Yeah.

He seems pretty stoical.

The same can't be said for Daniel.

If you feel you're going to pass out,

just pop outside the curtain.

Oh, that...that really hurt.

-You all right?

-(Yeah.)

Just trying not to see it.

Stitched up good and proper,

Kevin's got just 15 minutes till the start of his shift.

I've got to stand on a balcony,

cooking in front of loads of people looking like this.

It's not good!

-You've done a grand job. Thank you very much.

-All right?

-All the best.

-Thank you!

I thought it was going to be a lot more painful than it was

but it was OK.

But what about Daniel?

I was getting a bit hot and sticky there for a moment

when she actually pulled the wound together.

But other than that, it wasn't too bad, I suppose.

-You're still looking a bit...

-Yeah, rather you than me!

But you know...

Later,

more trouble at the hospital -

a climber who's taken a terrible tumble.

One of the guy's tried to catch her but he couldn't hold her

and she just...

Yeah, fell quite a long way,

and I just saw her disappear into this crevice.

I was just like, "Oh, God!"

Back in Scotland, the team from HMS Gannet

have been called to a nasty accident in difficult terrain.

OK, we've got a mountain biker

in a difficult position down in the bottom of a valley,

just by Dumbarton, Taff.

Right, OK.

He's a 55-year-old male, he's a bit hypothermic,

there's a lot of people with him, ambulance crew and the lot,

-so it's just going to be difficult access in the woods.

-Right, OK.

Take a look.

It's now 7:30pm

and they're losing light by the minute.

Taff's having dinner on the run.

Once the sun goes, temperatures will drop dramatically

and the patient could become dangerously cold.

The team need to get to him fast.

Phil briefs the pilot.

The Glasgow Air Ambulance and two specialist Critical Care doctors

are on the scene

but they're struggling to move the casualty.

HMS Gannet is the right team for the job.

They have a winch and they know how to use it.

They're now close to the scene of the accident.

Clear Door.

But the grid references they've been given don't add up.

Then the crew of the Helimed air ambulance radio in.

The SORT team are paramedics

who've had additional special training.

They're already with the biker but they can't move him alone.

Rescue 177 heads north

and soon sharp-eyed Speedy spots the bright yellow air ambulance.

The mountain biker's lying badly injured

on a seriously steep slope.

The yellow air ambulance has landed at the top

and the casualty is being treated by paramedics under the orange tent.

They can't carry the casualty up the hill.

But winching is no easy option either.

Later,

Taff discovers just how badly hurt the biker is...

..in Penzance, a climber's fall is nearly fatal...

I don't know what happened

but I guess my hand just slipped

and then before I knew where I was, I was heading through the air.

..but first, in Wales, a copper's kindness could backfire.

Wales has its fair share of remote areas.

The towns and villages are spread far and wide

and in between are the beautiful green hills and valleys

which it's famous for.

Geraint Skyrme has been with the Dyfed Powys police for 12 years

and still gets a kick out of doing his rural rounds.

Alright. alright.

Some people go to work, dig trenches, build houses,

plumb houses,

I come to work and do this.

These places are really vulnerable.

Look how remote this is.

When we're carrying out rural patrols like this,

it's good to check little places

and just make sure everything's all in order.

Stunning, absolutely stunning.

Oh, I feel...You come up here...

I don't know about you, I feel all warm, like.

It's weird, I can't describe it.

Oh, I love it. It's gorgeous, man.

Today, Geraint is on the trail

of seat belt offenders who aren't buckled up.

But who knows what else he'll find.

What's this one here? Yeah, he's got it on, hasn't he?

And a bobble hat for some bizarre reason.

Is she texting, I wonder, there? I don't know, she was looking down.

But then...

A car with a huge smashed screen right across the front of it.

So we'll have a little chat with him, I think.

It's not a seat belt offender

but it's still potentially as dangerous.

You all right? Yeah, good thanks. What's your name?

-Dan.

-Dan. Where are you from, Dan?

-Aber...

-Aber...?

-..gaveny.

-Gaveny, OK.

-This is your car, is it?

-Yeah.

-OK.

The reason I stopped you is your windscreen.

Oh, yeah. Yeah.

That's right in driver view here, isn't it?

-It was like that when I bought it like.

-Oh, was it?

-Yeah.

-And how long have you had it?

-About a month.

-A month, OK.

I get paid at the end of this month.

OK, mate.

My concern is at the moment

that guy hasn't got a proper view of the road, has he?

He's got a cracked windscreen right in front of the driver's view.

He knows about it, he's had the car for a month.

And like he said, he's a bit hard up, he is.

Dan's planning to get it fixed as soon as possible

but money's tight.

Luckily, Geraint can see the bigger picture.

If I see the car now within the next week or two

and it's not been done,

I'll take it as a personal insult on my good will.

-All right, get it sorted.

-I will.

And put that money towards a new screen. OK?

-OK, then, all the best. Bye-bye.

-Bye-bye.

Have a nice one.

I don't see what we're going to achieve

in that particular set of circumstances,

by giving him a £100 fixed penalty

when that £100 surely is going to be far better off

being deployed to a new windscreen, you know?

He's not going to escape.

He's going to use this route every single day

and if he doesn't use this one, he'll use the back one,

and I'll just go and have a look down there for the vehicle.

So I put the ball back in his court, at the end of the day.

Later, Geraint comes across a more taxing problem.

I haven't got a tax disc in it but I've paid the tax.

Right, that expired back last year.

In summer, the beaches near Penzance in Cornwall

are packed with families enjoying the fun

and surfers catching a wave or two.

But just around the corner,

the coves and cliffs are a vertical playground for climbers.

And the bank holiday has been cut short for one visitor

who was climbing at Sennen Cove when she slipped and fell.

Luckily, the accident happened

less than ten miles from the Urgent Care Centre.

She's fallen about 12 feet.

She's just been booked in but she's not feeling very well.

Edith's had a bad fall.

She's walking but she could still have a serious spinal injury.

So how did you have a fall, what happened?

I was scrambling down and the rock was wet

and I got over the worst bit.

And I don't know what happened but I guess my hand just slipped

and then before I knew where I was,

I was hurling through the air.

Can you just look at me a second?

-Yeah.

-I'm just going to shine a torch in your eyes.

If you can just look towards me.

Emergency nurse practitioner Katie Corrigan

needs to work out just how badly Edith's hurt.

So what have you injured then?

Both my elbows and...

my right cheek of my bottom...

is really sore.

But more than that, it's my neck.

Right.

-Did you lose consciousness at all?

-No, I didn't.

-You didn't.

And I think she's fallen quite a bit of a way,

so she's kind of injured her neck and her back.

She didn't lose consciousness at all

but you never know with head injuries.

So we'll just need to keep an eye on her.

Edith's friend Gill was part of the same climbing group

and saw the fall.

Yeah, it didn't look good at the time. I was worried about her.

I was at the bottom and I just saw her out corner of my eye.

I saw this kind of pink blur and I looked round

and I just saw her fall.

One of the guys tried to catch her but he just couldn't hold her

and she just...fell quite long way.

And I just saw her disappear into this crevice

and I was just like, "Oh, God."

I was really, really worried about her.

Katie's worried the pain in Edith's neck could mean it's broken

so she's referred her to Dr Patrick Farrell

who is trained to deal with more serious injuries.

Can we just gently move you forward?

-Oh, that...that...

-That hurts, does it?

-That really does hurt.

-OK, right. We won't move that, then.

-Sorry.

Dr Farrell's concerned about Edith's neck.

There's only one way to find out for sure if it's broken.

-OK. We'll get you down to x-ray I think.

-Right.

We were supposed to be driving back to London tonight.

Well, let's see what we find first of all.

-You're more important than getting back to London.

-OK?

-OK.

Knock knock.

Hello, my darling. OK, we just want to pop a collar on you,

-if that's OK?

-OK, yeah.

If she has broken her neck,

it's vital it's kept still to prevent any more damage.

-They're not most comfortable things, I'm afraid.

-No, they're not.

Falling 12 feet onto hard rocks

is a recipe for disaster.

The x-ray will show if Edith's got away with it or not.

Your neck looks like you've bounced,

which is good news.

-Right, OK.

-So I suspect

we'll be putting you in a soft collar for a few days.

It'll just hurt and you'll need to get some physiotherapy

when you get back to London.

I can't see why we can't take the collar off.

-I bet that's a relief, isn't it?

-It is.

It all looks absolutely fine.

I think she's been an extraordinarily lucky lady and has bounced.

Yeah, all looks OK.

She's going to be pretty sore and pretty bruised and battered.

It'll be stiffer tomorrow.

I was just so relieved when I heard her talking!

Cos yeah, it really didn't look good.

So...but...

She's been here a few times before so we know she's...

-THEY LAUGH

-..we know she's pretty tough so...

Shaken but not stirred, Edith's on her way home.

Thanks.

Earlier, the Gannet crew were called to a badly injured mountain biker

on the hills outside Dumbarton.

The air ambulance and a paramedic team are on the scene

but they can't get the casualty off the hillside.

And now the Gannet crew are faced with the same problems.

Taff thinks fast.

It's a plan but it will test the crew to their limits.

The casualty is on a steep slope, there are trees nearby...

...clear.

Lowering the winch.

..and the light is fading fast.

...one yard. Easy! And steady there.

-Good position.

-OK...

INDISTINCT

Get the footing, crack in with the winch.

Taff and Speedy race up the steep hill to the casualty.

Taff and Speedy close in on the casualty.

With Gannet now on the scene, the air ambulance can head off.

The Helimed heads for its Glasgow base,

but the two doctors it delivered remain with the mountain biker.

Garry is in a serious condition.

The doctors can see his right leg is badly broken

and he's barely conscious.

'Garry was...had been coming down the grass slope on his bike.

'He's came off the bike and slid away from the bike'

but then suffered a very nasty open fracture to his right lower leg,

and effectively broken the tib and fib

and put those through the skin of the leg.

'They'd treated the casualty and splinted the leg

'and they'd got him completely immobilised on a vacuum mattress.'

He was in a lot of pain

so they'd given him a very powerful pain relief, analgesia.

Ketamine is a heavy-duty painkiller, best known as a horse tranquiliser.

The doctors have given it to Garry, on top of morphine,

because he's in so much pain.

The ketamine complicates things.

Although Taff's a paramedic,

ketamine's not a drug he's qualified to administer, and that means

they need to take the two critical care doctors with them as well.

Five people to winch into the chopper.

But the light is fading fast,

and they need to get Garry off the hill before night falls.

Later, the mountain rescue team come in on the action.

And Garry relives his trauma.

I looked down.

About two and a half inches of bone sticking out down the side of my leg,

and thinking, "Yes, this is just not good at all."

Back in Brecon, and Geraint's on seatbelt patrol again.

But there are other offences that get right up his nose.

I don't like speeding through built-up areas.

And I don't particularly like people driving on their mobile phone either.

They're the two, I think, probably my pet hates, I would say.

Wait for it...

Wait for it...

-He's on his phone.

-Gotcha!

Blue van up ahead here. The gent's on his mobile phone.

His thumb was texting someone, so I'll have a little chat with him now.

But texting might not be the blue van man's only problem.

RADIO:

Yeah, that's received, thank you.

It could be a double whammy -

texting while driving, and no valid MOT.

What's your name, sir?

-Grant.

-Grant?

-Yeah.

-OK.

The reason I stopped you, Grant, I've just been sat up there

and I could see you texting on your mobile phone.

Your phone's up to the right hand

and I can see you operating your phone with the right hand.

-A message came through.

-Obviously you can't use your phone while driving.

-I know that.

Also, just to let you know, the vehicle's MOT expired

back on the 1st August, 2013.

-I didn't know that.

-All right?

No valid MOT could mean the van is not roadworthy.

Grant's not having a good day.

In relation to the mobile phone, there's two ways I can deal with it -

I can report the facts of the matter to the local magistrate's court.

You'll get summoned for the offence of driving using a mobile phone.

Or I can offer you a roadside fixed penalty today, which means

it's a fine of £100 and three points will be placed on your licence.

I don't get paid today. You have 28 days to do that,

so don't panic, I'm not going to ask for the money now.

The options, how you wish to proceed with it, are up to you.

OK, I'll take the points. I don't want to go to court.

You don't want to go to court over the matter?

OK, I'll go and collect my ticket folder. In relation to the MOT,

I'll give you some words of advice in relation to that, OK?

You need to get it sorted ASAP.

-I put two new...

-Otherwise I'll have to send you another £100 fine,

and you don't want to go £200 lighter from here today, do you? Right?

Grant's got something else on his conscience.

I haven't got a task disc in it, but I've paid the tax, but...

Right, that expired back last year.

If there is a problem with the tax disc,

that could mean an extra £80 fine.

It's a tense time for Grant.

If you want to, mate, no problem at all.

If you want to just go stand on the side for me, and save us getting...

Grant's feeling the pain.

There's a mountain bike race today over the Brecon Beacons,

so we've just done 60 miles over the Brecon Beacons

and I'm just on my way home, so...

No wonder he didn't cycle home.

Yeah, sorry about the MOT, mate, I totally didn't know about that.

OK. What concerns me more is

you're approaching a roundabout in a built-up town on a mobile phone.

That concerns me a lot more than your vehicle test certificate, OK?

For texting while driving, it'll be a £100 fine

and three points on his licence.

All the best, mate. Bye-bye.

HORN TOOTS

Grant will have to get himself organised

or he really will be "on his bike"!

The coast of Cornwall is a fisherman's paradise.

The Gulf Stream makes the waters warm and brings in anything

from sharks to mackerel,

so you never know quite what you might catch.

At the West Cornwall Hospital in Penzance, the staff are used

to seeing fishermen who've hooked more than they bargained for.

Eddie Mabgwe is a staff nurse here.

-Can you feel that?

-No.

He's been working in Penzance for seven years.

Nice and gentle. Excellent.

Take a seat there, sir.

And he's landed the catch of the day - fisherman Phil.

I managed to catch myself

as the biggest fish of the day.

I was out fishing on a friend's boat

and I managed to get one of the hooks in my head.

He's cut off the line,

but I've got a hook, the barb has gone through, I think.

The barb is the part of the fish hook

which stops it coming out of the fish's mouth.

Or out of your scalp.

Just a bit like Last Of The Mohicans, I think.

It's actually the surface of the skin, just underneath the skin there

that it's gone through there.

It's quite tender round there, is it?

Yeah.

It's a feather in his cap, but not one he really wants.

I'll get the bleepers!

That's what we call the pincher. It actually snaps the barb.

It goes through those big jaws there.

And you just press it and it just snaps it off.

I've got some local anaesthetic here.

-So this might sting a little bit.

-Yeah.

So, sharp scratch.

-You all right, sir?

-Yeah.

OK, just let that work for a minute.

Did you manage to catch any fish today?

Yeah, we caught about seven or eight mackerel

-and quite a sizeable pollock.

-Oh, right.

I should go out again, yeah.

I might wear a cap next time.

That would be a good idea!

-A helmet!

-A helmet, I need a proper helmet. A visor.

I must admit it's the first one I've seen, a fish hook on the head.

-Usually they come in, it's on the fingers or on the hands.

-Yeah.

-So I'm going to use this special tool.

-I understand.

What happens, once I push the barb through,

I'll just snip the head, with those big jaws there.

-Cut if off.

-I understand.

Then I'll pull it back through.

-I understand.

-All right?

-Yeah.

You OK?

Yeah, I'm fine. Can't feel a thing.

Good. There you go. That's the barb.

We've got it.

Barb exposed, time for the wire cutters.

I'm just going to snip it off now.

PINCERS CLICK

There's our little friend.

But the job's still not done.

I'm just going to pull this back through again.

Then that's out.

That's it, sir.

-Quite a big hook, isn't it?

-Yeah, quite a big hook.

So the bit that was in there...

-Yeah, that's the...

-That's the barb there.

-You cut it back.

-That's right.

Thanks for that.

OK, I'll just clean that area for you, make sure it's all OK there.

You can sling your hook now, Philip.

Lovely, thank you. Lovely to meet you.

-And you.

-Carry on fishing.

Hopefully we won't meet again.

THEY LAUGH

-Thanks for that.

-All right, sir, nice to meet you.

Back in Scotland, the Gannet team have been called to help

an injured mountain biker, Garry, who's badly hurt his leg.

He came off his bike at high speed on a steep slope outside Dumbarton.

I remember flying through the air and getting this...

I can smile about it now, but it wasn't nice at the time,

was the end of my foot flapping about

and I thought, "Oh, dear, this is just not good at all."

The doctors have stabilised Garry

and sedated him with a heavy-duty painkiller called ketamine.

I don't remember much about 20 seconds after that going in.

There's quite a gap at that point.

Taff and the Gannet team need to get him and the doctors off the hill

before day turns to night.

The plan is to winch him, but it's going to be tricky.

Taff thinks there might be another option.

Enter the Arrochar Mountain Rescue volunteers.

These guys are brilliant

and used to working exactly in conditions like this.

With expert help from the mountain rescue team,

they may be able to stretcher Garry up the treacherous slope.

But landing ten tonnes of Sea King helicopter at the top

isn't going to be easy,

with trees on one side and a steep drop on the other.

The ground's unsuitable to try and actually land the aircraft fully.

So the aircraft was, in effect, in a very, very low hover.

The wheels were in contact with the ground, but it's there for stability

rather than actually taking the entire weight of the aircraft.

Speedy battles through the massive downdraft from the rotors

to collect the stretcher from Phil.

The race is now on to get Garry into the waiting helicopter.

Already, the effects of the ketamine are wearing off.

I seem to remember coming round from it

seeing vague lights in my eyes,

them talking, then started to hear them talk around me again,

putting me into the frame and putting the thing round my neck.

But at least now, Garry won't have to go up on a winch.

The call didn't just come out to us,

it's also gone out to a local mountain rescue team,

who have just turned up. So the safest way to extract this guy

is for the aircraft to land at the top of the hill,

then with the assistance of the mountain rescue team,

who are used to working on this sort of ground,

we can use our stretcher, their kit and effectively carry the guy up.

Even with the MRT helping,

it's no easy task to get Garry up to the helicopter.

I remember it taking quite a number of people to get me up the hill.

It wasn't just a straight, you know, two or four,

because it was quite a steep, grassy hill

and it is a tricky hill even to come down on a mountain bike,

as I've clearly proven.

The down draft from the aircraft was quite considerable at this point.

You could the see people who were used to dealing

with that sort of situation being able to walk through it,

and some of the other guys getting blown around a little bit.

So I think seeing the MRT come up

and deciding they could carry the stretcher, I think,

was justified at that point.

Three and a half hours after falling,

Garry's on board at last, along with the two critical care doctors.

It's a short flight to the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley.

All right, you happy at the back?

OK. Lifting.

In the back, it's all eyes on Garry.

I seem to remember thinking, "This is a lot of people just for me,

"this is a crazy old fool that's been out here trying to mountain bike,

"that's broke his leg and, you know, I'm feeling slightly embarrassed here

"that this many people are involved trying to rescue me,

"so, sorry, guys."

Checking to the right's clear,

-tail's clear, and continue down slowly.

-Roger.

Eight minutes later, Rescue 177 touches down at the hospital.

It's been a terrible ordeal for Garry, but at last

he's where he needs to be,

and within hours he's on the operating table.

They put a nail into the tibia,

down the middle to hold the two pieces together. Um...

They screwed that top and bottom.

They spent a lot of time cleaning out the wound,

and the second operation was just a follow-up to that,

which was about four days later, to close the wound up

and do some re-work, I believe, on the nail that had been put in,

just to make sure it was secured properly.

I have reconsidered my mountain biking career!

I don't think I'll stop...

Maybe I just need to back it off. I'm not 16 any more.

As I saw it at the point when I did the accident,

there was only one way to get me off this, and that was by a helicopter.

It was never my intention to get that much attention,

but unfortunately that's the way it turned out.

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

Edith's neck still isn't back to normal

but physiotherapy should help

and she's not going to let her fall put her off climbing.

After his fish hook fiasco,

Phil's made a full recovery.

He's hoping for a tastier catch next time.

And Garry's broken bones haven't mended yet,

but he is off his crutches.

His consultant is pleased with his progress

but it'll be a long road to full recovery.

And you thought it was quiet in the countryside.