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The volunteers of the Cleveland Mountain Rescue Team were called into action in our area yesterday to assist an injured woman in Saltburn;

Police are looking to trace the potential owners of a number of items of climbing equipment that were seized in the Redcar area;

...and the last slab of steel produced at the former Redcar Steelworks will be among a raft of assets to be saved for future generations.

The volunteers of the Cleveland Mountain Rescue Team were called into action in our area yesterday to assist an injured woman in Saltburn.

The team were contacted by the North East Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust just after 9.15 yesterdat morning regarding a woman who had sustained a lower right-leg injury after sliding on a muddy path in the valley area near to Rush Pool.

Team members provided a vacuum splint to stabilise the injury and when ready the casualty was placed on a mountain rescue stretcher and carried downhill for a short distance.

Once on level ground, a wheel was attached  to the stretcher to wheel her for approximately 250-metres to a waiting ambulance. 

Police are looking to trace the potential owners of a number of items of climbing equipment that were seized in the Redcar area.

Officers believe the equipment may have been stolen - possibly from the Middlesbrough area.

If you believe these items belong to you or if you know who the items belong to, you are asked to contact police on the non-emergency number 101. 

The last slab of steel produced at the former Redcar Steelworks will be among a raft of assets to be saved for future generations.

It comes as part of the wider efforts by the Teesworks Heritage Task Force to capture, record and recognise the huge cultural, economic and industrial impact of the site on Teesside’s steelmaking heritage.

A huge ladle kept back for emergencies at the former BOS Plant will be included in the artefacts preserved, as well as the BOS Plant straightener, a Bull Wheel and a train cart used on the site.

Dozens of signs from the former steelworks will also be kept.

Kirkleatham Museum is set to take on the artefacts in two containers before plans are firmed up on where the assets will be displayed, and how the public can access them.