A WALKER who fell and suffered a suspected broken leg had to be rescued from rocks on the Roseland peninsula yesterday.

Falmouth Inshore Lifeboat was launched at 3.47pm to carry out a medical evacuation of a woman who had fallen at Carclase Point, at St Just Pool.

The Portscatho Coastguard Cliff Rescue Team and a paramedic also attended the scene.

The lifeboat arrived on scene at 3.55pm and two crew members went ashore to assist the rescue operation.

The casualty was then transferred on a stretcher to the Inshore Lifeboat, accompanied by a paramedic.

At 4.18pm the lifeboat headed up the Carrick Roads towards the King Harry Ferry slipway.

The patient was transferred to the waiting ambulance on the Roseland peninsula side of the river, where she was taken to Royal Cornwall Hospital, Truro.