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Nearby fishing vessels are understood to be assisting in the search

Lifeboats, helicopters and private vessels were involved in the search off the coast of Swona, near Orkney.

COASTGUARD teams have been helping police to search for a missing woman from Aberdeenshire as concerns over her safety grow.

A video shows the young girl struggling against the rough sea conditions as four people come to her rescue.

A hiker was injured in the fall on Killiedraught Bay in Eyemouth, Scotland, before rescue teams rushed to their aid and brought them down to safety on a stretcher

An East Lothian coastguard team was called to assist the casualty in a multi-agency rescue mission after a hiker dropped from a height and landed on rocks.

Coastguard and RNLI crews were scrambled to the incident on Sunday, May 7.

Bodies of drowned migrants wash up most days on Tunisian beaches, lie unclaimed in hospital corridors and fill morgues, evidence of a surge in people seeking to cross the Mediterranean that has been accelerated by a government crackdown. Coastguard patrols return to the port of Sfax crammed with migrants stopped…

Bodies of drowned migrants wash up most days on Tunisian beaches, lie unclaimed in hospital corridors and fill morgues, evidence of a surge in people seeking to cross the Mediterranean that has been accelerated by a government crackdown.