Episode 12 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 here's having a heart attack

and we need to get him in quickly.

There's no police courses for this.

..going hundreds of miles against the clock,

battling the elements

and braving the weather.

MAN GOANS

From fields and forests

to cliffs and country roads,

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

..with police fighting crime...

Could seize your dogs, could seize your van,

but I'm going to summons you all to court.

..paramedics saving lives...

BABY CRIES

..and wardens safeguarding our lakes.

Come out of the way!

We're there as the emergency services pull together

to pick up, patch up and protect the public.

This is Countryside 999.

Coming up, it's agricultural show carnage for the County Durham cops.

Lads, no, you're not. Get yourselves away.

Get yourselves away.

I would prefer you to go and get checked out.

Cornwall's Air Ambulance hit the beach

to rescue a collapsed body boarder.

And in Penzance, a surfer gets a nasty surprise.

-Did you see this thing that bit you?

-Yeah.

Was it a big one?

County Durham.

Home of the northern Pennines.

A landscape of high moorlands and dales.

Tasked with policing one of England's most beautiful beats

are the bobbies of Weardale and Teesdale.

I can see a bit of blood there.

Officers like PC Geoff Moore.

Come up here. I'm not going to be messing around tonight.

Well, to be honest with you, I'm a local lad.

I'm from Tow Law and I'd been away down in London when I was young,

didn't really appreciate what was around us till I come back.

Got the opportunity to work up here again,

and when you see what surrounds us, it's fantastic.

Geoff's beat covers almost 180 square miles.

He knows only too well being a country cop isn't a cushy number.

Could you either go that way or this way.

I never know what I'll be faced with from one day to the next.

Could be a neighbour dispute one day,

it could be destruction of a bat colony the next day.

Because we're based in a rural area,

they tend to look for officers with quite a few years' experience.

I'll have 19 years' experience in the force this Christmas.

We are basically trusted to work by ourselves.

We haven't got that many officers in Durham

compared to some of the other forces in the UK.

Sometimes you've got to learn to think on your feet

and sometimes discretion is a better part of valour

and you've got a good bit of chat,

which hopefully has worked with me so far.

Touch wood.

And Geoff's practical approach is about to be tested

as the tiny town of Wolsingham gears up

to host Britain's oldest agricultural show.

The town of just 2,250 is expecting up to 30,000 visitors.

Here they come. Aah!

It's the highlight of their countryside calendar.

Known as the Gateway to Weardale,

Wolsingham sits on the eastern end

of a 20-mile stretch of the Wear Valley.

Over the weekend, it is the agricultural show which

will be taking place on Saturday and Sunday a mile out of the village.

However, the fairground will be open here on Friday and Saturday nights

for the benefit of the local community

and lots of tourists who come for the shows.

In the town centre, the funfair is setting up in the market square.

With road closures, rides and rural revellers,

it's Geoff's job this weekend to keep everything under control.

Nice to see you again.

I know you've obviously got the waltzers set up today.

Are you doing anything else in the market tonight?

Right.

And the burger vans and stuff like that,

are they going the same as last year?

And will they be going all the way around the corner again?

OK. Well, I'm on again this weekend, so I'll see you this weekend.

Anyway, thanks very much. Cheers.

PHONE RINGS Geoff Moore..

Tonight, we are out in Wolsingham marketplace,

so all the local youths will be down there

and there'll be lost of youths from other areas

coming in on the buses tonight.

So we're looking for underage drinking, any antisocial behaviour,

possible drunk and disorderly offences

and anything else that happens tonight.

Cos with the flashing lights and the alcohol

and with the kids and stuff like that,

there is a potential it at all to go horribly wrong quite quickly.

And if it does go wrong, there's only a thin blue line

of four cops and a couple of police community support officers

on shift to deal with it.

So, the key is to keep things under control from early on.

Which school do you go to?

But already, things are starting to kick off.

-How much have you had to drink?

-Nothing.

You have, I can smell it on you.

Underage drinkers have been caught in the local park.

-I've just had a bit, not a lot.

-Right. Address?

Basically, we've found an underage girl in possession of alcohol.

Because it's an open container,

we're allowed by law just to pour it away.

What you two need to understand is

we're out trying to stop underage drinking.

-How old are you, young lady?

-I'm 15.

-14.

And you've had a drink of that cider? Right.

And your friend's obviously had some cos I can smell it on her.

-This is the first time...

-What you lot need to understand

is you need to tell us who this other young lady is,

otherwise you'll be in a whole lot more bother.

Are you going to tell us who she is?

-Cos you seem more...

-Why do you want to...?

..sensible then your colleague here.

Right, this is how it's going to work out.

For those who don't know us... Do you know who I am or not?

-Eh?

-PC Moore.

-Oh, so my reputation goes be...

-You're PC Moore?!

-I am.

-I've heard about you, mind.

-Is it all bad?

-SHE LAUGHS Right.

-You catch everyone.

-Good.

I've found the older I've got, the more intolerant I maybe get.

Lots of the problems that we've had this year

has been with underage drinking

and, basically, kids coming up en masse

from Crook and Wellington and Tow Law

and being involved in more like nuisance stuff, really.

As far as it goes, ladies, right?

You've had a drink cos I can smell it on you...

-I've only had a couple.

-You say...

Right, what time are you going home tonight, ladies?

-We get the five past...

-19:55.

-That's the last bus.

-The 19:55 bus?

-Yeah.

Right. I'm working here till four o'clock in the morning, right?

I'm expecting to see you two on that bus.

If you're not, what we'll end up doing,

because we've already had some dealings tonight,

we'll put you in the police car and we will take you back home.

Can I make it any clearer than that?

How old are you?

-15.

-Right. How old do you have to be when you drink?

-I don't know.

-18.

And if I find a reason to deal with you again tonight

and you're under the influence, I'll be looking to arrest you.

OK? What you need to understand is you're 15.

-You need to be 18 to drink lawfully in this country, yeah?

-No.

That's why we've confiscated the alcohol.

I'll see you down the shows tonight and I expect you on the bus later on.

We've obviously stopped the girls hiding in the toilets there

and they've done a bit of a starburst.

One of them has had a half drunk bottle of cider in their bag.

All the girls have admitted to drinking alcohol,

that's why we've seized it.

They're all under the age of 18.

To be honest with you, we find that the North East

is one of the worst places for the underage drinking.

-How old are you, young lady?

-I'm 15.

-14.

A lot of the kids from Crook, Willington and surrounding areas

will come down, bring alcohol down with them,

go to the parks and stuff like that,

have a few drink before they go on the rides and, like I say,

we're just trying to nip it in the bud

before they get completely intoxicated.

But it looks like the boozing teens are back.

Geoff's called to a street just off the town centre.

-Right, is this all the alcohol?

-Yeah.

-Right, have my colleagues got your details?

-Yes.

-Yes.

Have we met before?

Right, get yourself away. Away.

I don't expect to have any more dealings with you tonight.

What they'll normally do is bring the booze with them in bags,

get the girls to carry it with them, find a quiet street

and arrange, basically, to text up on the phones to meet in the street,

have all this booze and then go down on the rides

cos they know we'll be patrolling the fair later on.

So, it's our role to go round the side streets

and try and eliminate all this

because the more of this that goes in,

the more problems we'll have later on.

It's a game of cat and mouse between the cops and the kids.

But Geoff's battle to keep booze off the streets has only just begun.

The great British coastline.

Its varied landscape of secluded coves and busy beaches

a draw for millions of us seeking peace...

..or adventure.

In Cornwall, you're never more than 20 miles from the sea.

So, when summer arrives and the crowds descend...

..getting help to the holiday hordes

poses big challenges for rural emergency services.

Cornwall is a fairly large county.

We've got a huge amount of coastline and we've got two hospitals

that we take our patients to primarily in the area.

And in places in Cornwall, it is quite a distance by road

to get these patients to the hospital and can take up to an hour.

So, the aircraft is a vital piece of equipment in Cornwall

to get these patients to hospital quickly.

It's August bank holiday weekend.

Air Paramedic Mark Fuszard and the Cornwall Air Ambulance team

are braced for a busy day.

Today being Saturday of the August bank holiday weekend,

it is going to bring its own kind of problems.

Luckily, we've got a great day for flying,

which means it's going to be a great day for people to get down the beach,

so we're expecting high volumes of people to be using the beach,

to be using the water and hopefully enjoying themselves

and hopefully keeping themselves safe.

In 2013, the hot summer pushed visitor numbers up,

putting pressure on emergency services across the county.

SIREN WAILS

2014 promises more of the same.

A call has just come in.

How old is this chap? 40-year-old male.

And the lifeguard's on the scene, yeah?

Brilliant. OK, mate. We're on our way.

Thanks, Paul. Bye.

OK, we've got a 40-year-old male that has been pulled out of the water

at Widemouth Bay, which is up near Bude,

so quite a long way from hospital.

Pulled out of the water and he's not recovering very well.

In fact, he's actually deteriorating now,

so possibly secondary drowning.

But until we get there, we won't know.

So, we'll get on our way to Bude.

In serious medical emergencies like this,

the team aim to be scrambled and airborne in just two minutes.

On shift today with Mark

are paramedic Stu Croft and pilot Nick James.

The team are heading 30 miles north-east

to Widemouth Bay, near Bude.

It's quite a large beach.

From hospital, it is probably a good hour,

an hour and 20 minutes from the nearest hospital.

It is quite out in the sticks, really.

We're going to a 40-year-old male who has been pulled from the water,

which initially, he was responsive,

but has no become unresponsive and is deteriorating.

He's hypotensive, which means got a very low blood pressure.

A lot of watersports activity in this area, obviously,

with the surfing, windsurfing, that kind of thing.

People do get themselves into difficulty.

Luckily, we've got a good lifeguard service down this way

that manages to get them out, rescue them

and then it becomes our job to take them to hospital.

But getting this patient to hospital will involve landing on a beach.

The beach is going to be really quite busy.

Looking at the state of the tide and knowing the tide times,

we're looking at the tide fairly high up.

So, the problem is, have we got enough beach

that we can actually land on or look at another site?

So, we might look at landing from the beach

and getting the patient brought to us.

Stu makes contact with the land paramedic treating the casualty.

Gentlemen didn't have any radial pulses at the time,

which means they couldn't find a pulse in his wrist,

which means his blood pressure is too low

to support normal bodily functions.

It can be a sign of shock,

which could be cardiogenic shock, which is a heart attack.

He could have anaphylactic shock,

which is a massive allergic reaction.

They're all life threatening, so that is a time-critical emergency.

The lifeguards do that very well.

They'll clear an area then they'll mark it.

Usually on the wet sand, which stops the dry sand recirculating

and causing, you know, sandblasting people having their picnics.

The lifeguards, my first question to them as I walked over was,

"Oh, where's the patient?"

And they pointed to half a mile away to a little hut and said,

"Oh, he's over there."

It's a speedy and co-ordinated response from the lifeguards,

who train with the air ambulance teams for emergencies like this.

So, we're going to make way through on the vehicle,

through all the beach-goers.

There's a paramedic up there.

We'll assess him and get him down to the helicopter as quick as we can.

It's obviously a very busy beach

and we're causing a bit of a distraction.

Just up these steps and you're up the tower

and he's just on the medical bed.

How you doing, guys? Are you OK?

Good, thank you. How are you doing? All right?

OK.

47-year-old Andrew had been body boarding with wife Briony

and their kids when he took ill in the water.

He is conscious, but feeling too sick to sit up.

-No big meals at anything before...?

-No, no. Nothing is such, no.

You didn't go underwater and inhale any water

or swallow any water that you know of?

OK, that's fine. Sure.

You didn't pass out in the water?

Andrew's very low blood pressure is a big concern.

He must be transferred flat on a stretcher,

but there's no ambulance

and the helicopter's too far away for him to be carried.

Back at the Wolsingham Agricultural Show in County Durham,

PC Geoff Moore's making sure everyone is behaving themselves.

Just so you understand, it's a public place.

That's a private place, so I want you all to get down.

With the agricultural show winding down,

people are spilling out and into town.

Geoff's bracing himself for a busy night ahead.

Some of the families are starting to go home with little kids now.

Some of the teenagers are obviously starting to play up a little bit.

They're seeing we're out, it's a bit of sport for them

to have a laugh and a joke,

but sometimes they push it a little too far.

We've confiscated a little bit of alcohol.

I'm sure you can go down there and probably see you down there.

And we're still, basically, looking around some of the side streets,

some of the parks, just to see where the kids are at the moment.

For Geoff and the team,

tonight's beat isn't all about spoiling people's fun.

Hello, Robert!

-Evening, ladies.

-Hiya.

Some of the officers I work with are also local lads like me.

It's a good way of meeting people I was at school with 30 years ago,

catching up, meeting their families.

And there's also people who I might not have seen, like, you know,

in maybe a week.

Basically, it's cleared out an awful lot.

All the families have gone home with the little 'uns,

so a lot of the kids are just hanging around

probably till the last knockings.

Last orders in the pubs are at 10.30.

Pubs will be shut up here at 11 o'clock.

Last ride will finish at 11 o'clock as well.

However, what we tend to find is

because the kids are from out of the area,

the buses are finished now, they'll have to wait to get lifts home,

so we'll end up hanging around here waiting for them to go

and we can't go till they go.

And until then,

the cops will be keeping a close eye on the revellers.

Young man.

I've just confiscated four bottles of alcohol

from a 15-year-old local male that we've found in a bag.

I think also, we've probably seized somewhere in the region

of about £40 to £50 worth of alcohol

from six or seven youths, all told.

By taking the alcohol off them, it does keep the lid on it,

otherwise it just gets out of control and gets silly.

They start to fight and their behaviour just goes downhill.

The cops also check in on the pubs,

where the party spirit is in full swing.

Wolsingham Show, we have Tom...

Today at the Black Bull, Wolsingham.

..we have the police doing a good job.

What they are doing is settling everyone down,

keeping everyone calm.

We've got the shows in the background,

if you'd pan around to them, sir.

Everyone should come down from all over to come and watch these shows.

-Then you've got this on at night.

-You've got the shows on the night.

It brings the atmosphere to Wolsingham. Best night of the year.

It's not just about the alcohol. You have a good time.

As kicking-out time approaches,

the party starts to spill out into the streets.

Whoop-whoop!

Takes all sorts.

He's one of my old customers from Tow Law.

-Can I have a go of your hat?

-No.

GEOFF LAUGHS

As people have come out tonight,

they've taken a little bit of alcohol on board.

Sometimes it affects people in different ways.

Sometimes people become very friendly and want to give you cuddles

and put their arms round you and take lots of selfies, like tonight.

But it's also got the potential to escalate.

We'll end up taking her home. She's only 16.

I'm best friends with her brother.

-She's coming with us.

-Makes no difference.

We're going to take her home to make sure she gets home.

No, you're not. Get yourselves away. Get yourselves away.

Is your mam at home?

We have to be seen to do the right thing when necessary.

We have to make arrests where offence is committed.

MAN LAUGHS

-All right, son.

-Don't be a complete tool.

-I'm sorry.

-Get yourself away.

-Sorry.

Sometimes, you've got to have a little bit of common sense,

weigh everything up, and if we get taken away

or me and one of my other colleagues makes an arrest,

then that puts more pressure on my other colleagues

to deal with any potential disorder later on that night.

Despite the odd upset,

the cops have managed to keep everything under control.

We've had a good night.

To be honest with you, the evening's been quite quiet tonight,

which has been nice. There hasn't been any serious incidents.

I'd rather have a quiet weekend with no crime, no people getting injured.

To me, that's always a positive.

But reports suddenly come through of an accident over by the fairground.

Geoff might not be getting his incident-free night after all.

From a busy beat to a busy beach.

At Widemouth Bay in Cornwall,

air paramedic Stu is dealing with 47-year-old Andrew,

who collapsed while body boarding.

He's being treated in the lifeguard hut.

But Stu now needs to work out how to get him back to the helicopter

without an ambulance.

Just had a quick chat with the lifeguards. Yeah, good, thanks.

Have we got...?

Or from the helicopter to here and then back with the patient.

Do you have a large flatbed truck?

Yeah.

While Stu works out transport,

road paramedic Darren is keeping a close eye on Andrew.

Blood pressure was low and he had a very, very weak radial pulse

and his oxygen levels were very low as well,

so we reversed that by giving him some oxygen, some fluids.

With people this age and they present with collapses, it's heart attacks.

Not always with pains or shortness of breath.

Sometimes they just present in a collapsed state.

So, my initial thoughts were, "This guy might be having a heart attack."

They must get Andrew to the helicopter and to hospital.

Where we are in Bude and certain areas,

it's the longest distance to any main hospital in the UK.

So, we can cut a lot of time off and save a lot of time

and lives with the air ambulance. They're great.

On hand to help is lifeguard supervisor Ross.

We're going to transport him in the back of the vehicle

over to the helicopter.

We usually like to have the helicopter at the top here.

Cos we're busy in the car park, there's no landing space.

So, we're going to put him in the back of the truck

and transport him down to the helicopter on the beach there.

But a crowded beach means the lifeguards

can't take their eye off the ball.

Got all our battle stations on that one incident.

We've got to keep an eye as well on what's going on around us.

It's a busy day the beach today.

A lot of water users, a lot of strong rips as well,

so the guards have to be vigilant on everything that's going on.

Also keeping a close watch on the sea and the tide is pilot Nick.

We're trying to keep in contact,

keeping each other updated with what's going on.

We're going to bring him across to you ASAP.

We're moving it on as fast as we can.

Ready, set, lift.

OK, it's got feet on it so it will slide once it gets in the grooves.

With seriously low blood pressure,

Andrew's kept flat to ensure he gets enough blood and oxygen

to his major organs.

How are you feeling after that little bit of standing up?

OK. Not feeling dizzy?

OK.

Doing quite well. He's made quite a good recovery

with the treatment provided by the first paramedics here.

So, we're just going to take a steady trip

across to the helicopter now.

Come for a nice day out at the beach and then suddenly,

your worst nightmare.

You're on holiday, you're poorly

and you haven't a clue where you are.

And certainly, you know, in quite a remote area.

But great team effort. Lifeguards are well trained.

RRV paramedic came very quickly, made a good assessment.

So, a good early call from him means we can do our bit,

get here quickly and get him to hospital straightaway.

OK there, guys?

Without the truck, the team would have struggled

to stretcher Andrew the rugged half mile to the helicopter.

OK, yep.

Thank you very much, mate. Cheers.

We're looking to go to the most appropriate unit

and because we didn't know what was wrong with him at this time,

then we decided to head for Derriford Hospital in Plymouth,

which is a sort of a major trauma centre

and has lots of specialist areas.

From taking the call, it took the Helimed team just 40 minutes

to get Andrew safely in the air and en route to hospital...

..thanks to a multi-team effort

with the RNLI lifeguards and ground paramedics.

He's in a stable condition.

Conscious and feeling a lot better for it and obviously,

with the guys in the helicopter,

they can get him straight to Derriford Hospital,

which is probably by air about 20 minutes.

In respect with us, it is probably over an hour by land.

So, you can see he is far better off going by air.

He'll get there a lot quicker and he'll get the care he needs.

While the hot weather in Cornwall continues,

record water temperatures

are drawing the crowds down to the beaches.

The county's only major emergency department in Truro

is facing their busiest August in four years.

But helping to take the strain off the holiday influx

is the Urgent Care Centre in Penzance.

Have you hurt your nose? Aww.

That's it.

LAUGHTER

Let's put them up a little bit higher.

The team here deal with minor injuries,

from cuts and scrapes to bumps and breaks.

Brilliant.

-All done and dusted.

-Cool.

Today, they've been kept busy with a steady stream of surfers.

Can't you just dab this?

But some, like 26-year-old local lad Sean,

haven't even managed to make it into the water.

My name's Katie. How can I help?

It's swollen up a bit.

I don't know whether I'm just getting a bit panicky. I'm not sure.

Sean was checking out the surf at Gwenver Beach half an hour ago,

when the adder struck.

He's been brought in by his mum and aunt.

Yeah.

LAUGHTER

Adders are Britain's only venomous snakes.

They're found across the UK, often in rough countryside.

And in summer, the warmth brings these cold blooded creatures

out into the open.

This, combined with a well-camouflaged body,

can mean bad news for an inattentive surfer in flip-flops.

-Any nausea or vomiting or anything at all?

-No.

-Any aches or pains or anything anywhere else?

-Uh, I don't know.

-It's kind of feeling weird all coming up there, yeah.

-OK.

Not really... It doesn't hurt, it just feel numbish.

I'll do your blood pressure in a minute, if that's OK.

Blood pressure's up a little bit, but...

it's understandable, really.

-Are you in much pain at the moment?

-No. Not really.

Katie takes Sean for an ECG to check his heart.

Any irregularities could be a sign

he's suffering a serious allergic reaction.

Are you all right to just take your top off there for me a second?

-Have you had an ECG done before?

-I don't think so.

It doesn't hurt anything, just takes a couple of minutes, OK?

Adders aren't aggressive so bites are rare,

with roughly 100 a year reported.

Severe reactions are uncommon, but the venom can cause a lot of pain.

Dr Catriona Johnstone comes to check on Sean.

-Hello there, Sean?

-Yeah.

I'm Catriona. Hello. I'm the doctor.

-Did you see this thing that bit you?

-Yeah.

-Was it a big one?

Where did he get you? Here?

Oh, it's quite swollen, isn't it?

I may need to pump the trolley up to allow it to tilt.

-RATTLING

-Oh, glory. It's the noisy one.

LAUGHTER

He said it doesn't matter.

I can't possibly do this cos this one makes the most awful noise.

You can hear it in Scotland.

-It's fine.

-It's fine, it's fine.

RATTLING AND SQUEAKING

LAUGHTER

-Is it awfully tender?

-Mm.

-How are you feeling in yourself?

I can feel it right up here, like, full-on. It's spread right up here.

You know, that's where the glands are.

If there's any trouble in the rest of your leg, any inflammation,

-then that's where it tends to travel up the leg.

-Yeah.

The other lady said it was normal.

Bend your knee for me.

Just stretch your leg out a little bit.

You don't look as though you've had a serious reaction so far.

You'd be unlucky to, but sometimes it does happen.

We're just going to keep an eye on him for a while

in case he develops a reaction, an allergic reaction or anything,

but so far, he looks pretty well.

He was a bit... His heartbeat was quite rapid on admission.

Sean settles in for an afternoon staring at the ceiling.

-Are you feeling hot?

-No, I'm all right.

-Are you sure?

-Yeah.

-You're very pink.

-Yeah?

Around the face.

His ECG results have just come through.

I need to ask you, I was going to do blood tests,

but did you have a problem with your heart before at all?

Oh, that's what it is.

-You've got a variation from the normal tracing on your heart.

-OK.

But we don't really need to worry about it if it's pre-existing, OK?

-That makes sense now.

-Yeah, yeah.

-It's not going horribly fast or anything like that.

-Yeah.

-Did they keep an eye on you for a while when you were little?

-Mm...

Yes. He saw a specialist on a regular basis.

One of the valves didn't close down full.

I was worried initially about his heart tracing

because it looked a bit abnormal,

and that's why we were going to do some blood tests,

just to follow up with that.

All being well, hopefully he'll get home with instructions

to sit with his leg elevated until it settles down a bit.

Two hours later, Sean's finally free to go,

his surfing plans - for now, at least - scuppered by a snake bite.

It's been common here this year.

I've only seen one other adder bite here in the last two years here,

but you do read of them in the local paper and whatnot

and I know my colleagues have seen a few as well.

He's been well warned if he gets unwell to come back,

so hopefully he won't have to.

But the next day, there's a familiar face in the cubicles.

Sean's back and his leg is still giving him gyp.

It's looking quite swollen now, and that was fine yesterday.

It's spreading... Well, it's spreading all up the leg, really.

Nurse Richard Owen preps the ECG again.

-Looking a bit flushed.

-Yeah.

-That normal for you?

-Um...

-Or is that too many days on the waves?

-Maybe.

It's Doctor Daisy Peters' turn to check on Sean.

This is a little bit more swollen. That is to be expected, all right?

You haven't got any loss of sensation,

you haven't got any actual numbness.

What the venom does is

it causes things to bleed a little bit inside you,

so it's unlikely that you're going to get a clot in your leg...

-OK.

-..that would be causing major problems.

It's more likely you'll get a bit of bleeding.

-OK.

-But you need to keep off your leg for a few days, OK?

-OK.

-You can sign yourself off work for up to a week.

-OK.

And if you need longer than that, then you can see the GP.

-OK, then.

-All right?

-Yep.

It's an awful long weekend. But, no, no...

..West Cornwall are always fantastic.

So, it's back home again with even stricter orders to rest the leg.

I think it's always worth getting checked out.

I mean, never been bitten before,

don't even know anyone that has been bitten before,

so, I mean, guessing it's lucky it happened in this country,

not somewhere else more tropical.

Sean's week ahead looks like a total wipe-out.

The only surfing he'll be doing is on his mum's sofa.

There's actually some good surf at the moment as well

and the sun's shining, so...it's a bit annoying.

460 miles north of Cornwall in Wolsingham Market Square,

it's kicking-out time at the pubs.

After spending the evening tackling underage drinkers,

PC Geoff Moore has been called to an incident.

And this time, it isn't drink related.

We've come across because the paramedics

have got out of the vehicle and they've been told

that somebody's fallen over,

so they're just going to administer first aid.

So, we'll pop over there now and just see what the score is.

Event paramedics are treating a woman

who's tripped over some cabling and injured herself.

I take nobody's been pushed or 'out like that?

-No, no.

-Just fallen over?

Do you just live by yourself?

The thing is...

..with something like that,

it might be worth going to get checked out.

And I think, with something like that,

I would prefer you to go and get checked out.

Go and just get checked out by an ambulance, if that's OK.

Because if you've hit your head and your nose is bleeding as well...

I know, but with something like a head injury or something like that,

you could go home later on tonight, feel dizzy and fall over.

And I'd never forgive myself if something happened to you.

When we attended, the lady was obviously

in a little bit of distress on the ground,

her face was covered in blood.

There was the potential that she could have broken her knee.

Not only that, but we believe she could have broken her nose as well.

Yeah, would it be possible you could maybe call us an ambulance

to Wolsingham marketplace?

There's a lady who's fallen over on the slippery surface here.

She's breathing, conscious and she's bleeding from her nose.

An ambulance is en route, but it could be coming from Barnard Castle,

20 miles away.

It may be a long wait in the cold for 76-year-old Annabel.

One, two, three.

There we go. Oh.

That's all right, we've got you. That's all right.

We'll put this blanket round you to keep warm.

So, at the moment, we've got her off the cold ground, cos it's raining,

trying to keep her warm, wrapped her up in blankets.

Obviously, the paramedics from the fair

are attending to her until the ambulance turns up.

Because of the nature of her injury,

we're trying to raise her leg up to take a bit of pressure off it,

so I've come into the nearest club to get a stool and just go back out

and obviously administer some first aid.

The ambulance will come from the nearest available station.

Obviously, it's a Friday night, so it's busy everywhere

in the whole of County Durham, so we just wait for one to come.

Meanwhile, Annabel is kept warm by her knight in high-vis armour.

-Here's our Geoff.

-My very nice coat.

-Here's our Geoff coming to your rescue.

-Coming for you.

Geoff? I'm your beat officer!

The team are keen to move Annabel

into the warmth of a nearby social club.

Annabel, what were going to do is, me and Nick here,

we're going to quite happily carry you into the club,

if that's all right, so you can get out...

Annabel, listen to me, right?

Annabel, you've got two lovely, strapping police officers here

who're going to carry you in. Is that all right?

I know, but I don't know how long.

That was our control room saying...

No, no. I've had a word with Lillian. There's no problem.

She's not going to lose his licence. I'm the beat officer!

But Annabel doesn't want to cause a fuss.

I know you're not cold,

but obviously... You're not cold cos you've got all our coats on!

She insists she can walk.

Right?

Neighbour Abigail saw her trip and has stayed to help.

Don't put any weight on that leg.

She's well known in the village. She's a lovely lady.

I'm a nurse, I'm a trained nurse, so I'm going to go with her

cos I don't want her to be on her own.

It's typical Annabel.

She's a very strong-minded lady and likes to do things on her own.

But I'm not going to let her go on her own, to be fair.

She's an elderly lady and needs somebody to go with her.

That's it.

After 50 minutes, the ambulance finally arrives.

I'm enjoying this, mind, girls.

-LAUGHTER

-I'm enjoying this!

I'm enjoying this, I am.

-Shall we carry on, then?

-Yes.

LAUGHTER

It's been having a good bleed, while we've been waiting.

It hasn't affected your natural beauty, though.

-How do you know?

-LAUGHTER

-You never saw me when I was...

-I didn't, no.

You'll have to show us some pictures.

How do you feel at the minute?

-I'm very tired.

-Very tired.

And it's hurting. It's hurting.

-Can I just borrow your wrist for a minute?

-Hurting.

Don't worry about it.

You're swearing enough to lock you up, man!

LAUGHTER

-I didn't say...

-I know!

Basically, we've got a duty of care,

so to put our minds at rest, she's agreed to go off to hospital.

She's going through to Durham Hospital.

Luckily, one of her old neighbours is going to travel through with her,

who happens to be a nurse,

and then she's going to basically stay with her.

Cos of the circumstances behind it and because it involves

the allegation that she'd fallen over a cable at the funfair,

basically, I've spoken to the funfair owner.

He's going to notify the Health and Safety Executive.

Thanks very much for coming through tonight.

Much appreciated. All right, all right.

And it seems Annabel's not the only one taking a trip.

Puh!

HE LAUGHS

With revellers heading home and just a few stragglers left,

it's the end of a hectic shift for Geoff

and this small band of bobbies.

I like to think that the shows, once they're finished,

that's the summer over for the beat team.

The show's gone quite well.

There's been no arrests for any public order or anything like that.

Luckily, like I say, nobody was badly injured

and I'd like to think it was a successful show

and people enjoyed themselves, which is what we want.

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

After collapsing at the beach, body boarder Andrew

was given the all-clear and released from hospital.

Doctors suspect his very low blood pressure

could have been due to being too cold in the water.

After falling at the Wolsingham Show funfair,

Annabel was treated for a broken nose.

And Geoff had a busy weekend dealing with more underage drinkers.

And surfer Sean has recovered from his adder bite.

After nearly treading on another one,

he's now paying a bit more attention,

a relief to the adders of Cornwall.

And you thought it was quite in the countryside.