Coastguard called out to double cliff rescue near Findlater Castle

Coastguard teams responded to a double call out this afternoon after three people fell into difficulty on the cliffs near Findlater Castle.

Aberdeen Coastguard received the first report of two visitors at Findlater Castle in distress at around 12.25pm.

Burghead, Macduff and Portsoy CRTs and Buckie and Macduff lifeboat were called to attend the cliffs near the site near Cullen in Moray.

Teams carried out a rope rescue and successfully managed to lower the two people to the bottom of the cliff.

They were declared safe and well.

Climber airlifted to hospital

As teams were packing up at around 3.30pm, they received a call for assistance from the ambulance service to an incident just west of the castle.

A 22-year-old male climber had fallen from the cliffs at Logie Head. The casualty had fallen over 16ft.

Crew members from the same CRT teams and Macduff lifeboat attended and the Rescue 948 helicopter from Stornoway was called to assist.

The man was airlifted and was taken to Raigmore Hospital in Inverness for treatment.