OAP rescued by coastguards in island cliff fall

An 87-year-old man has been rescued after falling down cliffs in the remote archipelago of St Kilda.

The alarm was raised at around 2:20pm on Tuesday when the pensioner got into difficulty while visiting the island of Hirta.

A Coastguard helicopter, Leverburgh RNLI lifeboat and three Coastguard rescue teams went to the scene, which is more than 40 miles (64km) west of the Outer Hebrides.

Coastguards said the man had fallen a “considerable distance”.

Two Coastguard cliff rescue technicians brought the man to safety.

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