Article: Injured man in rescue drama.(News)

HOYLAKE Lifeboat went to the rescue of an engineer with a serious head injury out on Liverpool Bar on Saturday.

Crosby's coastguard requested the launch of the Wirral-based boat to assist an engineer on board a tug.

The man had injured himself by hitting his head on a wire, and was later airlifted to the Royal Preston Hospital with a fractured jaw.

The tug - towing a large unmanned barge - was two miles west of the Bar on passage to the North Rhyl windfarm when the accident happened.

Student paramedic and crewman Mike Chapman ...

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