'Badly equipped' walkers rescued
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Rescuers say two walkers are lucky to be alive after becoming stuck on a ridge in Snowdonia at night.
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Eleven students and two supervisors rescued after being trapped for four hours in North Yorkshire
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Helicopter and boat crews rescued hundreds of trapped people on Saturday after storms whipped through Britain, flooding towns and villages and sending thousands to emergency shelters.
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By Lydia Polgreen  Two dozen people were rescued and dozens more were feared dead after a boat carrying people trying to reach the Canary Islands was wrecked in northern Senegal, officials have said.
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A company which allowed people to go on a ride which had a missing section of track admits it put people at risk.
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Cornish coastguards were today involved in a desperate attempt to rescue 59 people cast adrift in an inflatable boat off the coast of Libya after falling victim to a human trafficking operation.
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A group of schoolchildren is rescued after being stranded in the Mourne Mountains in Northern Ireland.
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Rescue teams join a search for a person believed to have fallen into a river near the Royal Welsh showground.
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Two people are rescued by fire crews after becoming trapped inside a burning flat in Antrim.
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An operation is under way to rescue five Britons feared kidnapped in a remote part of Ethiopia.Comment
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A coastal rescue team saved 34 passengers and two crew from a ferry in Devon that broke free of its guide cables in bad weather and began drifting out to sea, the coastguard said.
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Staff are to receive counselling to help them cope with the ordeal, which involved the families of two employees being held hostage for over 24 hours.
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The three-man crew of an Irish fishing boat which went on fire off the Kerry coast this morning were rescued after they were forced to take to a life raft.
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Here's some help for those between a rock and a hard place.
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British and Irish rescue teams were scrambled to airlift 23 people off a ferry in the Irish Sea on Thursday night after the ship ran into difficulties in bad weather, officials said.
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Emergency workers in Mozambique launch an operation to rescue thousands trapped by the Zambezi flood waters.
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A fresh attempt to rescue an injured ship's captain is under way, after being abandoned in "extreme" conditions.