Rescue team carries ice-slip woman to safety

RESCUE . . . the injured walker is put on a stretcher by the Oldham Mountain Rescue Team

A 66-YEAR-OLD woman was rescued after injuring an ankle while walking at Dovestone Reservoir.

Oldham Mountain Rescue Team attended the incident at 12.30pm yesterday after receiving a pager message from the ambulance service.

The victim, from Liverpool, slipped on an icy footpath between Fern Lee farm below the northern edge of Alphin, dropping down towards Dovestone.

She was treated with pain-killing gas and her ankle was splinted before she was carried to the ambulance at Hey Top.

The woman, who was part of a group of 14 walkers with the Crosby Countrywide Holidays Association — all aged over 60 — was taken to hospital for treatment and was later discharged.