Emergency services surrounded a section of Crosby Beach after people were trapped in the mud on a New Year's walk.
HM Coastguard along with Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service, North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) and Merseyside Police scrambled to Crosby Beach, near the leisure centre, just before 4.10pm on Tuesday, January 2, following a 999 call. The call reported two people had got into difficulty around 500 metres from the shoreline.
Emergency services found one of the people, who had been walking along the beach, was up to their knees in mud while the second casualty was not stuck, but couldn't get back to the shoreline on their own.