A TRICKY rescue from a beach was made easier thanks to the Needles Coastguard Rescue Team.

They were called at 8.08pm last night (Sunday) to provide assistance to the IW Ambulance Service to extricate an injured woman from Brambles Chine beach in the West Wight.

The casualty was placed into a stretcher and carried to the waiting ambulance, and the rescue team was back at its station by 9.03pm.