RESCUE workers in the Lake District were called to three incidents in a single weekend.

Coniston Mountain Rescue Team attended their first call at 1.45pm on Saturday after a climber fell from Abraham’s route on Dow Crag.

Twelve team members worked with RAF Leeming MRT to make the casualty safe and treat him for leg and arm injuries.

An RAF SAR Sea King was deployed from RAF Boulmer and flew the patient to Cumberland Infirmary in Carlisle.

A short while later at 4:10pm the team were called to an incident at Ash Gill quarry, a disused slate quarry above Torver, where a young woman had fallen 40ft into the quarry.

Although she had surprisingly suffering only some bruising and a cut finger, she was unable to get herself out.

A team member was able to access the casualty and assist her out of the quarry.</p><p>The next day, the team was contacted by North West Ambulance Service for assistance in Grizedale Forest, where two motorcyclists, both young men, had crashed and received serious injuries.

One casualty had serious leg and arm injuries and was transferred to the Grizedale Visitor Centre by Land Rover Ambulance and airlifted to Royal Preston Hospital by an RAF Sea King from RAF Valley.

The second casualty was treated for leg and arm injuries and was taken by land ambulance to Furness General Hospital.