A multi-agency rescue costing thousand was sparked to rescue a 74 year old woman who became trapped in mud and cut off by the outgoing tide in Kent this evening

Twenty Coastguards, a Kent fire and rescue service mud team and a  Coastguard rescue helicopter from Lydd, were called to help a woman stuck in mud 400 feet out to sea. The woman had been cut by the outgoing tide and stuck in the mud near the Strand Open-air leisure pool in Gillingham in Kent on Friday evening.

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