Episode 5 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 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.

HE GROANS IN PAIN

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 the dogs, could seize the van

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

Paramedics saving lives...

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...

In Cornwall, the air ambulance race to rescue a man

with a life-threatening condition.

Does that hurt when you... Does that hurt when you do that?

OK. We won't do that any more, then.

In County Durham, a suspected sheep rustling case

calls on all PC Harry's skills as a rural copper.

This is just on-the-job training -

there's no police courses for this.

And in Dumfries and Galloway, paramedics are called to a casualty

where every second counts.

We have to transfer this patient as quick as possible

and it's blue lights, sirens, into hospital.

Cornwall, its spectacular coastline stretches over 400 miles

and for once the sun is shining on an August bank holiday.

The glorious weather in August brings as many as 700,000 visitors

to the area and as they flock to the beaches,

the tiny Cornish country roads can get clogged up quickly.

For the emergency services this can mean long delays

ferrying casualties to hospital by road.

And that's where the Cornwall Air Ambulance come into their own.

Paramedic Mark Fuszard has clocked up over 1,600 hours in the air.

I've been on the full-time aircrew now since 2006

and what I like about the job is the diversity, the number of

patients we see, the type of jobs we see

and just flying around Cornwall.

It's a fantastic job to be in.

Places in Cornwall,

it's quite a distance by road and can take up to an hour or maybe

more than an hour, especially on a bank holiday weekend,

like it is this weekend, with the volume of traffic,

to get a patient to hospital.

So the aircraft is as vital piece of equipment in Cornwall.

At their base in Newquay, Mark's colleague,

paramedic Stu Croft, takes an emergency call.

Thank you, cheers, bye.

OK, we're off to Helford for a 57-year-old chap who has collapsed

with a headache, so we're thinking a bleed on the brain.

So time-critical for a scan.

1A with you outbound to the Helford.

The casualty's headache was sudden and severe.

The land crew already on scene fear the worst.

They've assessed him and they think he may have a bleed in his brain.

The seriously ill man is in Helford, a remote coastal village over

30 miles along rural roads from their base.

A patient with a brain bleed can deteriorate rapidly.

But first, they'll have to find a safe spot to land.

Up front, paramedic Mark helps navigate.

But pilot, Sam Tompkins, thinks he's spotted a better landing site.

The crew are about to discover it's Helford Regatta Day...

And the locals appear to have gone native.

The Rapid Response crew deliver the casualty and more details.

Stay there, sir. OK, just hang on two seconds, buddy.

67-year-old Julian was enjoying the regatta

when he suddenly developed crippling head pain.

-He feels that it's worse when moves his neck.

-OK.

-He's been sick about four times now.

-OK. Any history of any of this?

When he was 19 years old he was involved in a road traffic

accident and underwent neurosurgery to actually have a clot removed

which was, he says, at the top of his head.

Always wondered if it would come back and haunt him.

-Right.

-Possibly not but...

-Yeah, but he's worried about that.

A previous blood clot could be a worry.

Hi, Julian, my name's Mark, one of the paramedics on the helicopter.

How are you feeling at the moment? Is this headache going at all or is it

getting worse or getting any better? Is it changing?

-I think the morphine has probably helped.

-OK.

You've had 15 milligrams of morphine which is great for your pain

but obviously I don't want you to be walking too far with that on board.

Basically, we're going to pop you on to this stretcher here

-and then we're going to lift you onto the helicopter, OK?

-Yep.

Julian, nice and steady, in your own time.

OK, and then I want you just relax

and pop your bottom right in the middle there, sit yourself down.

Fantastic, well done.

You'll be lying flat just for a second.

Crikey, you're quite tall, aren't you?

-Does that hurt when you do that?

-Yeah.

Unfortunately, we're going to have to have you flat for a second.

Julian's symptoms are all pointing towards the worst case scenario,

a subarachnoid haemorrhage.

Unfortunately, with this condition

up to 50% of patients can die from this problem.

We need to wiggle you down the stretcher a little bit.

A blood vessel that has ruptured in his head

causing pressure on the brain.

Can you put your chin on your chest for me?

As much as you can. Does that hurt when you...?

Does that hurt when you do that?

OK, we won't get you to do that any more then.

He had a sudden onset of this headache, it happened very quickly.

Started off in the top of his head, moved round to the back of his head.

He was also developing some neck stiffness which was also an issue.

Everything that he presented with on scene was leading to the

fact that this could be the case and he was having

a subarachnoid haemorrhage.

OK, on lift. Ready, set, lift.

If you could just guide it on, Stu, that'd be good.

Julian needs specialist care fast.

Julian, my colleague is going to look after you in the back

of the aircraft.

We're going to need to take your blood pressure and do a few more

little pieces before we take off.

I'm thinking perhaps we'll take this chap to Derriford.

Julian, we'll take you to Derriford.

We're not sure what's going on the moment

but we're going to kind of play on worst-case scenario

so we'll take you there where they've got a good neuro unit.

-And you'll be closer to home anyway. You happy with that?

-Yeah.

He's stable at the moment. We're going to bring him

in to you guys with a query subarachnoid haemorrhage.

Our ETA to you is going to be...

18.15.

The helicopter in these circumstances with this

sort of patient is absolutely vital.

We need to get this patient to the correct, definitive care.

In this case, Derriford Hospital

was the hospital of choice for us and the patient

and he got there within 22 minutes of us leaving the scene.

A journey that would have taken two hours on a good day,

probably nearer three from that location on a bank holiday weekend.

The Cornwall Air Ambulance crew have to be ready for anything

but on this job they really have seen everything.

It was quite strange to see a man dressed in a leopard outfit

jumping over the gate and coming toward the aircraft.

This is obviously an issue for us, not only do we not see a leopard

everyday, we don't like to see people getting too close to the aircraft.

It's their safety that is paramount, as well as our own.

Little bit amusing, the fact that he was dressed as a leopard.

But, yeah, welcome to Cornwall!

HE CHUCKLES

Dumfries and Galloway, south-west Scotland -

over 2,000 square miles of beautiful rolling countryside.

It's a region of green fields, forests and

picturesque dairy farms and home to 150,000 people.

For the Dumfries and Galloway Ambulance Service,

covering this vast rural area means long journeys,

often at speed, on dangerous country roads.

Paramedic Paul Votier and technician Keith McWhan face these hazardous

routes every time they're on shift.

But the job's got its plus sides.

You have the privilege of helping someone that you don't know

and that person could be walking around today

because of your intervention and, yes, it's a nice thing to know.

Today, on a busy summer Sunday,

emergency calls are coming in thick and fast.

From Dumfries, it's 13 miles by rural road to Lockerbie

and on the weekend, traffic can be a real problem.

Despite the hazards en route, Paul and Keith make the 13

miles in just 20 minutes.

The sat nav directs them to a local park.

Oh, right. It's down there. Just spin around here.

But on a sunny Sunday, everyone's come to play

in the local football league and the streets are chock-a.

They spot the casualty.

Turns out it's an injured footballer.

I tell you what, I'll get off and take the Entonox with me.

They've laid him out on a stretcher for us.

But there's so many parked cars here that I can't get anywhere near him.

Keith's just doing a quick assessment to see how bad it is

before we decide how we're going to move him off the grass.

I'm just going to block the road.

Carried to the ambulance by his team-mates,

the patient's called Ryan.

Entonox, a mixture of gas and air, helps ease the pain.

-OK. That's a lad, well done.

-Got that end?

-Grand, thank you.

Just put the leg back down. How is that doing? Grand, good lad.

The vacuum splint will support his injured leg until it can be X-rayed.

You feel that getting tight?

It moulds into the shape of your leg.

Go.

Level, level, level. That's us.

Just scoot over, son.

That's you, well done. And another inch or two. That's you. Grand.

Well done, lads, thank you very much indeed.

It's back to the game for the lads...

Whilst Keith and Paul, hot foot it back to hospital Dumfries.

Are you allergic to anything?

Penicillin.

26-year-old Ryan was just ten minutes into the second half

when he came a cropper.

Ryan's working his way through the gas and air.

Despite the happy gas, Ryan's got a few things on his mind.

He's also just had his big break with a local amateur team.

Ryan's safely delivered into hospital

but it might be Kavos on crutches for this injured midfielder.

The rugged landscape of County Durham,

some of Britain's most remote countryside.

Patrolling much of the rolling moorland is PC Harry Marsh.

Based in Barnard Castle,

his patch covers 300 square miles.

His rural beat is scattered with hill farms,

although it's anything but quiet.

There's actually been just this year a 12% increase in farm crime

and it has an enormous amount of community impact.

The annual cost of crime to the UK rural economy is over

£44 million.

Quite often farms and rural locations are specifically

targeted because they're easy to be able to take high value items from.

If you speak to any farmer around here,

I can guarantee you that he will have suffered some crime or other

and that is the case for all of the farmers that live in this area.

But it's not just stolen farm tools and machinery,

there's a centuries-old crime more associated with the Wild West

that's fleecing Britain's farmers.

A lot of people think sheep rustling is something that only happened

in the past.

The reality of it is that there is a huge amount of theft of sheep

and other livestock that still go on.

In the last year alone, as many as 90,000 animals were

stolen from Britain's farms and it's a lucrative business.

So you're looking at approximately each sheep being worth

about £75 to £150 each.

This is a good example of a location where sheep theft could

easily happen.

Just in the field here, which is just off the main road, there is

a main access gate into the field

and if you had someone who knew what they were doing, it would be an

easy matter for them to just get into the field

and round up as many of these sheep as they could,

put them in a trailer. And in that short period of time,

you're looking at thousands of pounds' worth,

potentially, of sheep that could be taken.

Today, Harry's investigating a possible theft of sheep

on 6,000 acres of common grazing land.

Used by a number of farmers, the livestock can often get mixed up.

Farmer Stan has discovered seven extra mystery sheep

whilst gathering in his own flock.

-Hello there. Nice to meet you, I'm Harry Marsh.

-Hi.

-It was just about the sheep that you reported to us.

-That's right, yeah.

-So if it's OK, can we go and have a look at them?

-We will, yes.

OK, thanks very much.

Stan called in PC Harry as there's something

a bit fishy about these animals.

I'm just going to examine them now.

We suspect that they belong to another local farmer

and that they may well have possibly been stolen.

I'm just going to have a check of their flock number,

which is a tag that's on the side of their ear,

just to confirm when they've come from.

Being a copper in the countryside brings its own set of challenges.

In October last year, we seized a lot of sheep.

And from that, I have learned how to handle them

and some basic skills on what they do.

Hopefully, it'll work OK this time.

When sheep get mixed up between farms,

ear tags can easily be switched.

Detecting the original owner is the tricky bit.

If you want to go through.

We'll get them in one corner, I'll get hold of one of them.

That didn't work well.

Harry will look for clues to indicate

if these sheep are, in fact, stolen.

You're all right, I got one.

I had no idea 24 years ago that I would be doing anything like this.

But it's extremely rewarding

when you can get people's sheep back to them.

The three ewes and four lambs have confusing markings

identifying two possible owners.

This particular sheep has got an ear tag in.

Now, this is easily replaced and can be put in by any farmer

and this is what makes it so easy for them to be stolen.

However, on the other side we've got a much older method of identifying

sheep and this is a section of the ear that's been taken out.

Farmers do this to identify which flock that they've come from

and this is a much older method of doing it.

The confusion here is the plastic tags don't seem

to match the original identification mark cut out of the ear.

It could suggest someone is retagging sheep in order to

claim them as their own.

This particular sheep and the other sheep that are in here

are going to need to be further investigated

and looked at to see if they have been stolen or not.

But at the moment, it certainly looks like it.

Farmer Stan has been a victim of sheep theft himself

so he's always on the lookout for sheep with suspect identification.

For quite a lot of years we always were a number of sheep short

when we gathered them in at the end of the year.

In fact, last year I was 19 short.

And it's just something that's been

going on for quite a few years, really.

They were just lambs that were lost last year

and they added up to well over £1,000.

Just what I lost last year alone.

These sheep together could fetch as much as £600.

99% of farmers, I would say, are very genuine and honest people

but there's just the odd bad apple in the barrel.

And it's just very annoying.

Now the sheep are evidence in a possible crime,

they'll be retagged and photographed.

Harry calls in Crime Scene Investigator Mr Stephen Tindale.

-If you could just photograph the sheep while I hold them.

-Yeah.

-Yeah?

More used to catching thieves than sheep...

This isn't in the police handbook.

This is just on-the-job training, dealing with Swaledale sheep.

There's no police courses for this.

Exhibit B proves uncooperative.

Hang on.

This one's a bit lively.

Hang on.

A lot of farmers can visually recognise them just from their faces.

And hence the reason why we'll take a photograph

square on the face as well as taking another

photograph of both ears and a side on shot of the sheep as well.

I'd not say I can recognise them all

but people's sheep do tend to vary a little bit and you have a good

idea which ones are yours before look at them closely, yes.

-Was that OK?

-Yeah.

-Right.

Harry now needs to find

a way of proving who's the real owner of all seven sheep.

He thinks it's the farmer who put the cuts in the ears.

The important stage of the investigation now is to get them

to have a look at the sheep. We'll get a quick statement

for evidential reasons, if we need to go to court at a later stage.

And he must also track down the source of the suspect ear tags

if he's to get closer to solving this case.

The spectacular scenery of Dumfries and Galloway,

always popular with tourists.

In summer months the population swells by 60%,

putting extra pressure on the region's ambulance service.

Paramedic Paul Votier and technician Keith McWhan

are in the middle of their busy summer Sunday shift.

They're racing to a 999 call from on a rural caravan site.

Strokes are the third largest cause of death in the UK.

They can be caused by a bleed,

like Julian's brain haemorrhage,

or by a blockage in a blood vessel.

Either way, and oxygen supply to the brain is cut off.

Once that is affected, then the brain gets starved and then

if it's not repaired or treated quickly,

that part of the brain will start dying and it will be irreparable.

SIREN WAILS

They're blue lighting from Lockerbie to Hoddom Castle Caravan Park

eight miles away.

But even then it won't be easy to find the casualty.

Our problem is going to be finding this caravan but hopefully

there's going to be someone there to meet us or guide us there.

If there is no-one there to meet us and show us where to go,

we could be circling the campsite looking for the patient.

That's happened several times in the past.

Thankfully, there's someone on the gate, saving vital minutes.

The casualty is lying collapsed inside a caravan.

What's the lady's name?

-Caroline.

-Hi, Caroline.

Do you know what's going on, Caroline?

In cramped conditions,

Paul immediately checks Caroline for the classic signs of a stroke.

Can you give me a big smile?

Well done, sweetheart.

One of the assessment tools we use is the pneumonic FAST which

stands for face, arms, speech and the T stands for time-critical.

We look at the face, if it's asymmetrical,

is a drooping one side? Arms, can they raise their arms?

Is there weakness one side in the arms?

And speech, is it slurred speech?

SLURRED SPEECH

Can I help you? Can I get you a cup of tea?

I'll have a cup of tea later, if that's OK.

Her speech wasn't that slurred but she was very confused and unaware.

Have you fed the horse?

The horse? Yeah, we'll feed the horse, don't worry.

You just rest easy, Caroline. OK?

Who are you? What's your name?

-My name is Paul.

-Paul.

-Mm-hm.

-You're an awful nice man.

-Am I? Thank you very much.

There's not many people that say that to me.

Caroline's partner Andy called the ambulance,

she's had strokes before.

Did the last stroke affect her mobility at all?

What side did it affect?

Left-hand side.

I've actually witnessed it before with Caroline before

so I knew the symptoms.

She just couldn't move her left side.

I noticed, just her expression in her face,

she was in the stages of having a stroke.

OK, you sit yourself up.

Bring this leg round.

-There.

-There you go.

-There, it's there.

-Well done.

One more step here.

Manoeuvring Caroline out of the tight space isn't easy.

-It's not very comfy this chair, is it, Caroline?

-Nah.

-Sorry.

And then, in her confused state, Caroline becomes anxious

and distressed.

-I want you to sit there...

-It's not my bed!

-I know, darling. It's a comfy bed.

-It's not my bed!

I know. It's OK.

Partner Andy helps to reassure her.

It's OK. We just taking you to your bed, it's all right.

I'm not very calm when it comes to things like that,

I really was really all going sort of thing, you know.

But I was just trying to help the paramedics as much as I can

and get her to hospital as quick as.

Is that your car?

The longer we're on scene, the longer time we take to travel,

the more damage is being done to the brain

so we have to transfer this patient as quick as possible

and it's blue lights, sirens, into hospital.

Hi, this is the Lockerbie ambulance.

Just to let you know we're bringing in a 47-year-old female.

Query CVA within the last hour.

We're going to be probably 20 minutes, Keith?

About 20 minutes.

Paul keeps checking Caroline

for signs her condition is deteriorating.

Nearly two million neurons can be lost in the brain every

minute a stroke is untreated, so speed is of the essence.

It was hard. They had to go very fast in country lanes.

A lot of traffic in that time. They did very well to get there.

In just 20 minutes, they arrive.

Caroline is taken straight to the resuscitation room.

It's less than an hour since the 999 call but with

time passing, the medical team must diagnose and treat her fast.

In County Durham, PC Marsh is on his way back to the farm where

some mystery sheep are waiting to be claimed.

They were gathered in accidently by farmer Stan

who noticed they had conflicting identifications.

We've got this sheep with a particular ear tag in with the flock

number that doesn't tally with the section of ear that's been taken out

here that identifies it from a particular local farm.

Someone could be retagging sheep to pass them off as their own.

It would be a very good thing if we could catch the person responsible.

After checking records, Harry thinks he's traced the original owner

and he's meeting her at Stan's farm.

I'm going to take a statement from the owner and we're going to have

the sheep recovered back to her farm

now that we have them as police exhibits.

Farmer Marie is missing some ewes.

She'll be looking to spot her own distinctive mark

cut into each sheep's ear.

Looking at them now, do you think they look like they could be yours?

Right. OK.

-Did you put them in yourself?

-Yeah.

-Right.

Can we have a look at them, then?

And I'll get each individual one identified.

-That's definitely yours, is it?

-Yep.

-And that's not your flock number?

-No.

Right, this one.

The three older sheep, the ewes, all have Marie's individual ear marking.

Same as the other one.

But the four young lambs don't have any ear markings.

Harry needs to prove they're also part of Marie's flock.

So what we're going to do is let them go to their mothers

and then we know specifically that they are paired up with them.

With each one heading straight to their mum...

it's clear who these lambs belong to.

You spend hours looking for them.

The other day we were on the fell eight hours looking for sheep.

Recovering these sheep is worth hundreds of pounds to Marie.

And you just presume they're not there.

Marie takes the sheep back to her farm

but it isn't case closed for Harry.

Back at base in Barnard Castle,

he follows up the flock numbers on the tags in question.

We've managed to return the sheep to the owner and at the moment

enquiries are still ongoing.

We're looking at a number of suspects who may be involved in this.

It's a difficult case to solve

but the investigation is ongoing.

With limited resources, policing rural areas can be challenging.

A lot of the farms are extremely remote,

particularly in the Teesdale area,

and it's very, very hard for us to be able to police them,

very difficult to always keep an eye on the locations

where the sheep are taken from.

All we can do is do our best

and work together with the farmers who own the land and do

the best that we can to prevent these thefts from taking place.

In Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary,

the medical team are assessing 47-year-old stroke victim Caroline

after she was rushed in.

What are youse doing to me? I can go.

Let's just have another little look at you, OK?

Caroline collapsed at a rural caravan park

making it no easy job for ambulance crew Paul and Keith

to quickly get her to treatment.

Do you know what's going on, Caroline?

A wee faint.

Clock starts ticking at the first

signs and symptoms a patient's having a stroke.

Give me a big smile.

Well done, sweetheart.

In a rural setting it is...

It goes very, very quickly.

We're going to be probably 20 minutes, Keith?

The quicker we get in, the better for the patient.

The less damage to the brain.

The medical team, led by Dr Peter Armstrong,

immediately start tests.

She's still very confused.

She's got a weakness that is still there on the left-hand side.

Her speech is still a little bit mumbly

so the words aren't coming out quite as well as they normally do.

I think she's certainly not any worse than she was

but we're just taking her round to CT scan now.

We'll take a look and see if there's any evidence of any bleeding in

and around her brain and take it from there.

If the CT scan shows signs of a haemorrhage,

it could mean long-term devastating brain damage.

OK, well done, Caroline. We'll just set that for your brain scan

so just be a wee moment. Doing really, really well there.

Caroline is still unaware of her condition

but the scan results are instantaneous.

Well done, Caroline. We're just checking those pictures just now.

You're doing really, really well.

Just looking in depth at every slices of the brain.

It takes only a few minutes to do but gives us so much more information.

Hi, Caroline. How are we doing?

-Champion.

-Yeah, you feeling better?

-Top of the shop.

Have you still got that sore head?

OK, we'll get you a little bit of painkiller then for that.

-See if we can make that a bit better.

-Aye.

-OK, well done.

After analysing the results,

Peter refers the scan to a specialist radiologist.

She's a young person and this is onset at 11 o'clock this morning

so probably a good candidate for consideration of thrombolysis.

We'll grab a wee seat inside.

Peter finds Caroline's partner Andy to talk through the results.

We're just back in this room on the right-hand side.

There's no signs of any bleeding or anything like that.

Now, there's a radiologist who's looking at it

and he's going to give me a sort of formal report very, very shortly

but, certainly, looking at it myself, I couldn't see any signs of...

Any collections of blood within the brain which means that she is

behaving more like a traditional type of stroke.

If we're satisfied that there's no bleeding in there

then she would be a candidate for this clot-busting drug which the

idea is that it tries to dissolve any blood clots around the brain

and try and get the blood flowing to those areas again.

This is good news for Caroline.

With no sign of a bleed, it's more likely a blood clot has caused

the stroke, meaning Caroline can have an effective new treatment.

There is a potential treatment given her young age,

given how quickly she's come to hospital

and that is a treatment called thrombolysis

where we'll administer a drug in through the veins

and the idea is that it will break down blood clots to try

and improve blood flow to the actual brain and try and

reduce the amount of damage.

For most patients, thrombolysis needs to be given within

four and a half hours of the first stroke symptoms.

Thanks to Caroline's quick transfer to hospital,

she's within that critical timeframe.

-Hi.

-Hiya.

-Do you recognise this person?

-Hello.

We're going to take you upstairs to one of the other wards, OK,

and see if we need any other treatment, OK.

You're going to be fine.

Now, I gave you some of that painkiller. How's your headache?

Well, there we go.

It looks like you might have had a little stroke this morning.

-Is that a good thing or a bad thing?

-It's not a great thing, to be honest.

It's not a great thing but I think you're going to be fine.

Because of the speedy response of the ambulance crew

Caroline has been given every chance to receive the right treatment.

Treatment that could lead to a full recovery.

We have a narrow time window where we can potentially deliver

life-changing treatment. For the paramedics, obviously,

the key thing is to get to the casualties safely,

in a timely manner, to make an assessment of them

and then convey them as safely as possible to hospital.

And you've got to remember that we're in a rural environment

so the journey times are going to be longer than if you're in the city.

It's not unusual for maybe paramedics to have to travel

an hour or perhaps longer with the patient to get them

to hospital so, really, the pressure is on them

to make an assessment and make a decision as soon as possible.

And I must say, I take my hat off to them

because this, they're doing it in often very difficult circumstances,

circumstances that maybe we in hospital don't appreciate.

And just ten days after receiving the life-changing

clot-busting treatment, Caroline's already recovering at home.

I can't really remember being in the ambulance or

anything like that but I know if it wasn't for them

at the time and their quick thinking,

and getting this diagnosed as quick and my partner getting it

diagnosed as quick, then I probably would be very ill at the moment.

The speed that the ambulance came for me was tremendous

and considering we were right out in the country at the time,

and Paul, who was absolutely wonderful,

held my hand all the way to the hospital

and got me there in this time limit

that I should have been in the time limit to get the special drug.

Eventually got a cup of tea!

And I don't know where that came from

because it's definitely not me because I don't make that that often

but I think it's a mum thing, you know,

like if anything goes wrong you have a cup of tea and that

fixes the world and that is great to have a cup of tea, eventually.

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

Julian was suffering from a brain haemorrhage.

But after 11 days of treatment at Derriford Hospital,

he's now back home and making a full recovery.

With a twisted ligament and chipped shinbone,

Ryan was on crutches for five days.

But he did make it to Kavos with his mates.

After further investigation into the sheep theft,

no charges have yet been pressed.

The case is still ongoing.

And Caroline has a weekend already planned back at the caravan.

And who said it was quiet in the countryside?