THE Teignmouth lifeboat crew launched to look for a missing person, but ended up retrieving a coastguard who was injured during the same search.

The Two Annes was tasked to help police in the search for the high risk missing person, and scoured the coast between Bundle Head and Maidencombe beach.

Two crew members went ashore to check the beaches and rocks, and came across the coastguard, who had fallen.

He was taken aboard the lifeboat to Shaldon beach, where he was transferred to the coastguard patrol vehicle.

The missing person later turned up at Maidencombe, and the search was stood down.