Boy taken to hospital after falling around 15ft from Johnstone's Hole rocks at Dunbar Harbour

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Boy taken to hospital after falling around 15ft from Johnstone's Hole rocks at Dunbar Harbour
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The incident near Johnstone's Hole, at the back of Dunbar Harbour wall, sparked a multi-agency rescue mission with RNLI teams, paramedics, police officers and firefighters at the scene.

An 11-year-old boy plunged around 15ft after falling off rocks near an East Lothian harbour.

The schoolboy slipped from a ledge near Johnstone's Hole, at the back of Dunbar Harbour wall, on Sunday evening. The incident sparked a multi-agency rescue mission with RNLI teams, paramedics, police officers and firefighters at the scene. The boy, who is believed to have fallen between 10-15ft, was put in a neck brace and stretchered onto a lifeboat. He was then transferred to an ambulance and was taken to the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People in Edinburgh.

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