Douglas lifeboat crew assisted the coastguard recover two youths from cliffs below Onchan Head on Tuesday night.

The pair had become stranded on the cliff and it was decided it was safer to lower the youths down to the water’s edge to be recovered by the RNLI.

Douglas all-weather lifeboat, Marine Engineer, was launched under the command of volunteer coxswain Peter Cowin and with just a calm Douglas Bay to cross was quickly on the scene of the incident.

Crew members Robert Radcliffe and Tom Washington used the lifeboat’s daughter boat, an inflatable dinghy, to go ashore to transfer the two youths, one at a time, to the lifeboat.

With both safely onboard, the lifeboat made the short journey back to harbour where the two youths were left in the care of the coastguard seemingly none the worse for their experience.

l Peel coastguard assisted paramedics with a casualty extraction at Glen Mooar near Kirk Michael on Tuesday morning. Once the casualty was stabilised, they were transferred to a stretcher and then to a waiting ambulance.