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HELICOPTER LANDS BOY AFTER CLIFF FALL Holyhead, Anglesey. At 9.40 on the evening of the llth May, 1962, the police informed the honorary secretary that a boy had fallen over the cliffs at Treaddur Bay. The life-boat St. Cybi (Civil Service No. 9) was launched at 9.55 with a small boat in tow. There was a light north-easterly wind, the sea was smooth, and it was one hour before low water. While the life-boat was making for the position a helicopter landed near the life-boat house with the boy strapped to a stretcher, and the lifeboat was therefore recalled. The boy was taken by the shore helpers to a nearby hospital, but at 10.55 a message was received from the police that six men were marooned at the bottom of the cliffs. They were four firemen and two police officers, who had helped in the rescue of the boy. This information was passed to the life-boat, which made for the position given. The six men were taken on board and landed at the boathouse at 1.50 in the morning..