DART | 2 SEPTEMBER

Walkers on the South West Coast Path got front-row seats for an unusual type of rescue when the crew of Dart's inshore lifeboat went to help a calf. The animal had become wedged in a cave after falling 20m down cliffs, west of Compass Cove in Devon. The crew pulled the British White steer out of the cave and, with the help of a local farmer, secured it to a fishing boat for an assisted 200m swim back to the cove. The calf's ordeal wasn't quite over however, as crew and farmer then had to coax it up a very steep flight of wooden steps to return it to its field.