High winds and heavy rain kept the Swanage Coastguard team busy with four incidents in one day.

As new crew members spent the weekend training in Bournemouth the Swanage Coastguard Rescue Team had an extremely busy Sunday patrolling the coastline.

The coastguard said they have received eight calls in the first ten days of September and four of them yesterday.

The first call came at around 1am to support colleagues from Southbourne and Lymington to rescue a woman who fell over a cliff in Bournemouth.

The early morning patrol was then of to inspect a piece of ordnance discovered at Knoll Beach. Photographs of the artillery were sent to the Export Control Organisation for examination which confirmed the heavily corroded item was harmless.

The coastguard team marked the object up to avoid further calls and liaised with the landowner to arrange removal and disposal.

As the weather worsened in the afternoon, the team were called back to Studland to assist a young woman who had twisted her knee badly while walking near Old Harry Rocks.

Working alongside National Trust rangers first aid was given and arrangements made to transport the woman to hospital.

The last task of the day came when Swanage RNLI were out rough weather training and noticed what looked to be a fresh cliff fall in the Tilly Whim area.

Swanage Coastguard team, wearing full foul weather kit, checked out the area and the coast path above to ensure no one had been injured and the corrosion posed no threat.