Three rescued from tidal causeway

Holy Island causeway is under water at high tide

Three people had to be rescued after their car became stranded on a tidal causeway in Northumberland.

Coastguards said crossing times advice to Holy Island was ignored by the two men and a woman who were forced to abandon their car in the rising tide.

The rescue on Sunday afternoon was the third such incident on the island's crossing in the last fortnight.

The stranded people climbed on to the causeway's refuge box and waited to be rescued by a lifeboat.

Earlier this month rescuers had to deal with two major call-outs in the space of a few hours when a family of four had to be winched to safety after ignoring warning signs.

And 12 hours later the coastguard was called out again to help two teenagers whose car had become stuck in sand.