MRCC Yarmouth paged Hunstanton Coastguard after a report of a man with a broken leg at Gun Hill, Holkham. The Coastguards drove onto the beach at Holme Gap and located the 51-year-old casualty. The Air Ambulance transferred the casualty to the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital.

In the last incident of a very busy day, MRCC Yarmouth called Hunstanton Coastguard after a report of a drifting dinghy. By the time the team arrived back at Hunstanton the dinghy was safely ashore.

Hunstanton Coastguard observed three people on the wreck of the SS Vina at Brancaster who were in danger from the rising tide. They were picked up by the warden’s boat from Scolt Head.

Coastguards instructed the casualties on the dangers of the tide. One of them was heavily pregnant and would never have made it to shore without help from a boat.

MRCC Yarmouth paged Hunstanton Coastguard after a member of the public found a young child who had lost his parents. Announcements using the Coastguard vehicle’s public address system produced no result.

Eventually the parents noticed their child was missing and approached the vehicle, where they received a short talk on beach safety.

In the day’s second missing child incident at Old Hunstanton, MRCC Yarmouth paged Hunstanton Coastguard when a 3-year-old girl became lost. The team soon found her safe and well.

MRCC Yarmouth paged Hunstanton Coastguard after two children went missing on the beach. Soon after they arrived, the crew of the lifeboat tractor found the two girls, who were aged 6 and 4.

MRCC Yarmouth paged Hunstanton Coastguard after a report of a missing child. The team was stood down shortly after arriving at the station.

MRCC Yarmouth called Hunstanton Coastguard after a report of a personal watercraft (PWC) in trouble. After observing from the clifftop, the Coastguard team met Hunstanton lifeboat at Heacham. The lifeboat crew picked up the casualties, who were unhurt. They explained that their PWC had a flat battery and so would not start.

MRCC Yarmouth paged Hunstanton Coastguard to attend an inland incident in which a man had apparently fallen 7-10 metres into the water at Bawsey Lakes. The team guided RAF helicopter Rescue 125 to the spot, having with some difficulty secured a landing site among rubbish which could have endangered the aircraft. The Coastguard Sector Manager attended and liaised with the police and fire service. At the request of the police, Coastguard cliff rescue specialists recovered items of clothing from the cliff. The man was apparently not seriously hurt.

MRCC Yarmouth paged Hunstanton Coastguard after a report of a surfing kite in the water near The Firs. There they met the member of the public who had raised the alarm, and conned Hunstanton lifeboat onto the object, which the lifeboat crew recovered. The kite had previously been reported missing.

MRCC Yarmouth paged Hunstanton Coastguard after a report of two people stuck in sand dunes. The team was stood down shortly after arriving at the station.

MRCC Yarmouth asked Hunstanton Coastguard to keep watch on a man on the beach whom police suspected of having a knife. Police officers had searched him earlier that day, but had found nothing.

Coastguard Rescue Officers spent just over an hour watching the man, who went for a swim and then left the beach.

MRCC Yarmouth paged Hunstanton Coastguard to ask the team to help Hunstanton lifeboat locate a windsurfer. After arriving at the lifeboat station the Coastguards were stood down.

MRCC Yarmouth paged Hunstanton Coastguard after a report of a missing child, but stood the team down almost immediately when the child was found safe and well.

MRCC Yarmouth paged Hunstanton Coastguard after a 3-year-old boy went missing on Brancaster beach. One group of Coastguards took the child’s mother and searched to the west of the golf club, while another group searched to the east. The boy’s older brother spotted him around 1 km east of the golf club.

MRCC Yarmouth paged Hunstanton Coastguard after a report that a 37-year-old woman had threatened to kill herself somewhere on the Norfolk coast. Police located the car on the A47 and the team stood down at 15:26.

MRCC Yarmouth paged Hunstanton Coastguard after a report of missing people on Old Hunstanton beach. The team discovered a group of teenagers who had made the call when one of their number -- a 16-year-old girl -- was thought to be missing. They accompanied the group, including the “casualty”, back to their car and collected names and addresses.

Later the same evening Hunstanton Coastguard was paged again to search for a missing woman believed to be at Brancaster. Seven members of the Hunstanton team and a Coastguard from Wells joined the hunt. Police found the woman and the Coastguards stood down at 00:30.

MRCC Yarmouth paged Hunstanton Coastguard after a report that a distressed person was planning to enter the water off Hunstanton promenade. Working with the police, the team searched from Snettisham to Holme, but found nothing and stood down at 21:00.

MRCC Yarmouth paged Hunstanton Coastguard after a report of explosive ordnance on the beach at Holme. Police cordoned off the beach and a military disposal team arrived at 15:30. A first controlled explosion at 16:07 failed, but a second at 16:47 succeeded.

During a routine training session MRCC Yarmouth paged Hunstanton Coastguard to report a kite surfer in trouble. The team established communications with Hunstanton lifeboat, whose crew rescued the casualty.

MRCC Yarmouth paged Hunstanton Coastguard after a report of a missing person on Hunstanton beach. The team was stood down immediately.

MRCC Yarmouth paged Hunstanton Coastguard after a report of a person in the water off Old Hunstanton. The team spotted the casualty, who was taken ashore by Hunstanton lifeboat, and collected incident details.

setting off on a routine safety patrol, two Hunstanton Coastguard Rescue Officers were tasked to observe a yacht in difficulties off Brancaster beach. They made radio contact with Brancaster Sailing Club’s safety boat, and observed as the safety boat towed the casualty into harbour. On board were one person and a dog.

MRCC Yarmouth paged Hunstanton Coastguard after a report that four white flares had been seen off Snettisham Scalp. The team carried out a detailed search of the beach, but found nothing. They stood down at 01:05.

MRCC Yarmouth called Hunstanton Coastguard to assist the police with a stuck vehicle.

MRCC Yarmouth paged Hunstanton Coastguard after a report of an aircraft going down in the Wash. The first informant photographed the aircraft at 19:46 from Heacham, showing a descending spiral of smoke. Several other witnesses saw the aircraft and the smoke plume, but no aircraft were reported missing and the team stood down at 00:50.

MRCC Yarmouth paged Hunstanton Coastguard to help an ambulance crew locate a 42-year-old man having an asthma attack on the beach. The ambulance crew located the casualty and the Coastguard team stood down.

MRCC Yarmouth asked Hunstanton Coastguard to investigate a police report of drums on the beach. The team discovered that the drums belonged to Hunstanton Sailing Club, and did not present a hazard.

MRCC Yarmouth paged Hunstanton Coastguard after a report of a kite surfer in trouble off the cliffs. Hunstanton lifeboat also launched, but by the time the Coastguards arrived on scene all windsurfers and kite surfers were safely back on shore.

MRCC Yarmouth paged Hunstanton Coastguard after a report of a kite surfer in trouble near the cliffs. Hunstanton lifeboat picked up the 43-year-old casualty from the water. He declined medical attention, but accepted tea and a hot shower at the lifeboat station.

An early start saw Hunstanton Coastguard team members back on Holme beach, where they located the previous day’s shells. A bomb disposal crew detonated two of the shells. The whole procedure took two hours.

MRCC Yarmouth paged Hunstanton Coastguard after a member of the public found an artillery shell on the beach between Holme Gap and The Firs. The Coastguard team spoke to the informant and located a total of five shells. They took photographs and a GPS position, and informed Yarmouth in preparation for a return visit the next day.

MRCC Yarmouth paged Hunstanton Coastguard after an elderly woman became stuck in river mud near the courthouse. The crew of the West Lynn ferry quickly picked up the casualty and took her to a waiting ambulance, and the Coastguard team stood down before reaching the scene.

MRCC Yarmouth paged Hunstanton Coastguard after a report from a CCTV camera operator of a kayak apparently in trouble off Searle’s holiday park. A Coastguard team searched sea front from the cliffs to Snettisham, and found a member of the public who reported seeing the kayak safely ashore at one of the houses on Heacham beach.

A reported threat by a car driver to drive over a cliff prompted a call from MRCC Yarmouth during Hunstanton Coastguard’s regular Monday night training session. A team went out to check, but found nothing. The driver in question was later discovered to have been safely at home.