SEARCH and rescue workers teamed up with emergency service colleagues to rescue an injured child in Connah's Quay.

In a statement North East Wales Search and Rescue (NEWSAR) confirmed a call was received reporting an injured young girl and a group stuck down an embankment in Wepre Park yesterday evening.

A spokesman for the charity said: "North Wales Police officers were able to extract the group just as our first team members arrived.

"A NEWSAR team member who is a paramedic checked over the young girl and she was then assisted to the car park and handed on to a crew from the Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust."

A Welsh Ambulance Service spokesman told the Leader: "We were called at 5.39pm yesterday to Wepre Park.

"We sent a rapid response vehicle and an ambulance and conveyed an 11-year-old female to the Countess of Chester hospital with non-life threatening injuries."