Man rescued from Barton mud flats

A Rescue operation was launched after a man became trapped on mud flats on the banks of the Humber.

The man became stuck in silt at about 1.20pm yesterday, after venturing out on to the estuary, close to the Waters' Edge visitor centre at Barton-Upon-Humber.

Police, the coastguard and ambulance service were all called to the scene and the helicopter was eventually used to winch the man to safety.

News of the rescue broke on www.thisisscunthorpe.co.uk and www.thisisbarton.co.uk

A spokesman for the coastguard said: "We sent the Humber Rescue Service and the Hull coastguard to the person, who had apparently walked out towards the river.

"It was mainly a police job."

The trapped man was transported to hospital, but is understood he was not seriously injured.

A Humberside Police spokesman it was not known why the man had ventured out on to the mud flats.

"We were called out following reports of a man stuck in mud on the side of the River Humber, close to the Humber Bridge," he said.