A GRANDMOTHER, a teenage boy and a 10- year-old girl had to be rescued from Riving- ton Pike in three separate walking accidents.

Bolton Mountain Rescue Team were called out to Rivington Pike twice on Good Friday and once on Easter Saturday.

A 65-year-old woman had to be airlifted to hospital after she fell and banged her head while out walking with her family at 1pm on Saturday. She had slipped and fallen on part of the path leading up to the top of the pike.

One of her sons called 999 after becoming concerned about her condition.

The woman, from Warrington, had been out walking with 12 members of her family, including her husband, three sons, daughter-in- law and grandchildren, when she fell.

She was carried off the slope on a stretcher and transported to an Air Ambulance helicopter, which had landed on the nearby moorland track of George’s Lane, near to Rivington Terraced Gar- dens, before being flown to the Royal Blackburn Hospital. On Friday, the rescue team was called out when a 14-year-old boy fell and fractured his hand.

He was one of the hundreds of people who had marked the start of the Easter weekend with the Good Friday Rivington Pike Walk. The teenager, from Horwich, fell on the slopes of the hill.

Rescue team members carried him to his father and an ambulance at the junction of Georges Lane and Chorley Old Road and he was taken to hos- pital.

Just 20 minutes later, a 10-year-old girl from Chorley fell while walking out with her family and injured her knee.

Mountain rescue team members drove the girl and a family member back to their car at the Great House Barn Information Centre in Lever Park, Rivington.

Garry Rhodes, from the tam, said: “I would like to thank everyone involved for their excellent efforts in the three incidents.

“This is another excel- lent example of our close co-operative working with the North West Air Ambulance, greatly helped by the North West Ambulance Service staff.”