CALL OUT - 29/06/2022 - 23:18 - Our lifeboat, the ‘Heather White’, launched following reports of a missing person in the vicinity of the Ribble Estuary.

The lifeboat launched at Southport and searched northwards towards the Ribble, after which it entered the estuary and conducted a search alongside Lytham St Anne's RNLI.



After an extensive search, all units were stood down after the person of interest had been located inland.

Our thanks to all involved.

This will have been the reason for the Sikorsky S-92 helicopter leaving Caemarfon Airport on Wednesday night late on, flying to just off the Southport coast and then almost immediately turning round and returning to base.