A paraglider has ended up in hospital after crash landing near a beach in Cornwall.

Coastguards were called at around 8pm on Sunday following reports that the paraglider had crashed near Hell's Mouth.

The Portreath Coastguard Rescue Team soon found him in a field near Basset's Cove, suffering with an ankle injury.

He was transferred by the coastguards to an ambulance, to be taken to hospital for further treatment.

It was one of a number of shouts during a busy bank holiday weekend for the Portreath team.

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Yesterday afternoon, at around 2.15pm, a five-year-old boy was reported missing by his father at Gwithian.

With the tide coming in, the volunteers started to comb the beach to find him.

After about an hour he was found by one of the search teams safe and well, about a mile down the beach, heading towards Hayle.

A coastguard spokesperson said: "He was speedily re-united with his parent, as he insisted on running all the way back to meet his dad!"

As the team was leaving Gwithian to return to their station they received a message from Falmouth Coastguard Operations Centre to investigate a report that there were people cut off by the tide at Wheal Tye near Porthtowan.

The Portreath spokesperson added: "As the team began to set up the cliff rescue equipment, the people appeared on the coast path, having extricated themselves from their predicament."