A woman was helped from the beach at Southwold by coastguard rescue teams after she suffered a fall.

HM Coastguard rescue officers from Lowestoft and Southwold were alerted at 12.05pm on Wednesday (September 28).

A spokesman for the coastguards said: 'We were called to assist the East of England Ambulance Service at Southwold Beach to evacuate a woman from Southwold beach who had fallen and possibly fractured her leg.'

With five coastguard rescue officers attending, the team helped evacuate the woman from the beach and into a waiting ambulance.