Lifeboat provides inflatable and first aid in team effort for fallen climber Members of Anstruther lifeboat crew can be made out on the foreshore in this photograph providing first aid while a helicopter prepares to lift an injured climber to safety.

The lifeboat was on service on 14 May when the coastguard asked her to investigate a report that a climber had fallen on cliffs at Kencraig Point, only 10 minutes away.

She arrived to find a man waving for help and so the small X Boat was inflated and two first aiders from the crew were landed to assist the man's companion who had fallen some 30ft.

Due to the nature of his injuries a helicopter was called and while awaiting its arrival the coastguard cliff rescue team arrived and lowered a doctor and nurse down the cliff, helped by the lifeboat crew.

The station honorary secretary described the service as 'a text book team effort, involving all the services.'.