Man's cliff fall broken by tree

The teenager was wedged in a tree halfway down the cliff

A man has been rescued after falling about 50ft (15.2m) from cliffs in Devon.

The 32-year-old suffered leg injuries after becoming wedged in a tree about halfway down the cliff at Hope's Nose, Torquay.

He was spotted trapped in the tree's roots by a member of the public.

Coastguards lowered him in a stretcher to the bottom of the cliff, where the Torbay inshore lifeboat was waiting to take him to hospital.

A spokesman for Brixham coastguard said: "Luckily he landed in the roots of a tree."

It is not known how the man came to fall from the cliff.