A quick-thinking family helped to rescue a neighbour at the weekend after he suffered a fall in Delph.

Karen Sumner was out walking with the dog around the Castleshaw area on Sunday at around 4.15pm when she found a man who had fallen and badly hurt his leg.

It soon became clear that the casualty was a neighbour.

Karen's son, Sam, 24, said: “My mum and a runner who was passing rang 999 to get an ambulance which they got told it was going to take two hours.

"This was not ideal because the man was sitting sat in a wet cold puddle so it would have been likely he would get hypothermia.

“The runner rang mountain rescue and my mum rang my dad.

"Me and my dad were at home, which is about 10 minutes away from where he had fallen.

‘We got to the scene as quickly as we could.

"We had to carry the man through The Valley and to the end of Hull Mill Lane because that was the only place an ambulance could get access to.

“By that time we made it to the ford where my dad had his car parked.

"And rescue services were there to help and shortly after the ambulance had arrived.”

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A North West Ambulance Service spokesperson added: "We responded to a 999 call at 4.16pm reporting a patient had slipped down an embankment.

"An ambulance and helicopter attended the scene and male patient was was driven to hospital with a leg injury."