Lifeboat crews called after man falls on rocks near Highland castle

Lifeboat crews were called after a man fell on the rocks near a Highland castle.

An RNLI volunteer crew from Kyle of Lochalsh was paged on Saturday to help Scottish Ambulance Service crews transport a man with a suspected broken ankle from the shoreline of Eilean Donan Castle in Dornie.

The lifeboat was called just before 6pm after ambulance crews requested assistance to help the 48-year-old man who had fallen on rocks.

Crew members transported the man from the castle island to the slipway at Dornie Community Hall, where he could be carried to the ambulance.

One of the RNLI crew members said: ''Due to the location of the casualty it was decided the safest way to get him to the ambulance was for us to transport him, however it was a tricky spot to get the lifeboat in to and out of, and was made all the trickier by the rapidly receding tide.''