Cowes RNLI Lifeboat. Picture by Nick Edwards.
A LIFEBOAT has comes to the rescue of a girl who fell ill on a secluded beach.
At around 11.20pm last night a Cowes RNLI Lifeboat was launched to go to the aid of a 16-year-old girl.
The girl had cystic fibrosis and had become ill on a secluded beach at Gurnard.
After being helped on to the lifeboat she was brought back to Trinity Landing where an ambulance was waiting to take her to hospital.
The lifeboat returned just after midnight.
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