A family had to be rescued after getting stuck in mud as the tide was coming in.
Coastguards from the RNLI Hoylake, New Brighton and Crosby received reports at around 9pm to a family stuck in mud and cut off by flooding tide on Crosby beach on Monday. The group, which included young children, had been cut off from the shore by the incoming tide and were stick in the soft sand and mud.
A coastguard officer was able to reach the family on the sandbank and one of the children, who was feeling the effects of the cold, had been brought ashore through the water by a member of the public before being passed to coastguard officers. New Brighton Lifeboat reached the remaining members of the family on the bank in the "fading light" and were brought onto a lifeboat.
