Buxton team called to assist an East Midlands Ambulance Service crew in the Goyt Valley, following reports of a walker in difficulty on moorland south of Errwood Hall.

A male walker of 63 years of age was suffering chest pains. He was treated on site by ambulance service paramedics together with the crew of the Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Rutland Air Ambulance which had landed nearby. Following treatment, the casualty was placed on a stretcher so that he could be carried by the team some 500 metres across difficult ground to the waiting helicopter.

The gentleman was then airlifted to Wythenshaw Hospital, South …

A Buxton and Edale snatch squad was called by the East Midlands Ambulance Service to a paraglider who had crash landed in fields below Bradwell Edge.

He was treated and evacuated by the air ambulance as we were en-route.

A Buxton and Edale snatch squad was called to Higger Tor, near Hathersage, late on Wednesday morning.

A passing walker had stumbled across an unconscious male lying beside the footpath on moorland beyond Higger Tor.

The unconscious casualty was checked on site by an Edale team paramedic. He was then evacuated to the waiting air ambulance and flown to the Northern General Hospital, Sheffield, for further treatment.

A joint Buxton and Edale snatch squad was called to Castleton at lunchtime to assist the East Midlands Ambulance Service.

A child had fallen in Cavedale and sustained head injuries. The exact location of the casualty was unknown, and it seemed like a search would be required.

However, the school party involved had assisted the casualty to Castleton village, and as the ambulance crew arrived on scene, the teams were stood down.

A Buxton and Edale snatch squad were called to the north side of Mam Tor at lunch-time to attend to a crashed paraglider.

The paraglider, a 55 year old man, from Matlock, was coming into land when he hit a wall, sustaining possible spinal injuries. Both a land ambulance and an air ambulance also attended the incident.

The casualty was taken by land ambulance to a hospital in Sheffield for further care.