A FELL rescue team is heading for a record-breaking year as the number of call-outs soar.
The volunteer Cleveland Search and Rescue Team has been called out eight times in a little more than three weeks.
Spokesman Pete Mounsey said Easter proved to be an unprecedented busy period.
He said: "Normally in a year we get between 20 and 30 incidents. This year looks like it could be a record."
The rescues so far this year have included the recovery of a dying man who fell over a precipice on the North Yorks Moors, the rescue of an injured walker, and a call to help a mountain biker.
The volunteers have been involved in searches for missing children, confused walkers and dementia sufferers.
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