Cockle-pickers rescued from bay
A group of cockle-pickers has been rescued after becoming trapped on the sands at Morecambe Bay, a Lancashire Police spokeswoman said today.
The group was trapped in an area known as the Warton Sandbeds.
The rescue attempt came only an hour after a memorial ceremony to remember the 19 Chinese cocklers who lost their lives in Morecambe last Thursday.
A spokesman for the Royal National Lifeboat Institute said the group, who had been travelling on a tractor, were now safely back onshore in an area known as Redbank.
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