FIREFIGHTERS have helped rescue two injured people on the Malvern Hills in recent days.

Malvern and Ledbury firefighters rescued the first from Sugarloaf Hill on August 14, at around 9pm that night.

He was a teenage boy who fell off a mountain bike, and taken to hospital after being seriously injured.

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And the second was helped the following morning, August 15, at Black Hill at 11.34am.

That was a woman, in her 70s, who suffered a break after a fall.

In both the casualty was retrieved, with the help of paramedics, as the ambulance had difficulty access the injured person safely.