Bends diver is rescued off coast

A diver has been taken to hospital after being rescued after getting into trouble off the Norfolk coast.

Coastguards said the man had been diving from a leisure boat and began suffering the bends after his dive off the coast at Happisburgh.

The bends - or decompression sickness - is caused by divers returning to the surface too quickly.

A rescue helicopter from Wattisham Airfield and Happisburgh inshore lifeboat took part in the operation.