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Coastguard

Her Majesty's Coastguard is a section of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency responsible for the initiation and co-ordination of all maritime search and rescue. Falmouth serves as one of nine UK Maritime Rescue Coordination Centres. The UK itself is split into eighteen different areas for coastguard units and Cornwall is number eleven.

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Live: Coastguard helicopter scrambles to incident at Par Docks
Coastguard
Police officers and ambulances are also in the area
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Body found on Cornwall beach
Cornwall beaches
Tributes have been paid
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Helicopter and lifeboats deployed in search for missing Penzance man
Coastguard
Hugo Bedward vanished on Saturday night and concern is growing for his welfare
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Live: Car plunges over wall and lands on beach rocks
Cornwall beaches
All emergency services were sent
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Rescue helicopter called for walkers trapped on Porthtowan beach
Cornwall beaches
Two people had become cut off by the rising tide
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Children injured in Looe Land Train crash as three helicopters rush to scene
Cornwall Air Ambulance
Police are appealing for witnesses
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Three helicopters called to land train crash at Tregoad holiday park near Looe
Looe
Both the air ambulance and a coastguard rescue helicopter were deployed as well as coastguard rescue teams, firefighters, ambulance service
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Yacht grounded on Polzeath beach after skipper took 'wrong turn'
Padstow
'If it had run up on the rocks, it would have been a different story'
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Woman's body found in Wadebridge
Wadebridge
An investigation will take place
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Large-scale search operation for missing person in Wadebridge
Wadebridge
A woman's body has been found during the search
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Beloved family dog dies in fall from cliff in Cornwall
Dogs
Dog owners have been warned of the dangers of walking near clifftops
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Woman and child fighting for life after Mullion bus crash
Helston
A young boy and woman in her 30s have sustained life threatening injuries
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Woman dies after fall off MSC Virtuosa cruise ship
Sailing
It follows a major search effort
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Sailors have to be rescued off Cornwall coast in rough seas and 60mph winds
RNLI
RNLI volunteers sailed the difficult conditions for nine-hours to bring a yacht to safety
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Search for missing diver near Falmouth called off
Coastguard
The diver's next of kin has been informed
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Family trapped on condemned Cornwall beach
Coastguard
You can't go there
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Crewman collapses after fire breaks out on fishing boat
Newlyn
Fire crews boarded the burning boat to search for its crew
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Urgent warning after children dig huge 6ft hole on busy Cornwall beach
Coastguard
Beach safety patrollers blamed the parents, who 'weren't thinking straight that day'
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A hundred people needed rescuing by RNLI on 'busiest weekend of the summer'
Newquay
Lifeguards had to rescue scores of people from the water
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Person stuck in mud after falling from wall triggers large-scale emergency response in Fowey
Fowey
The coastguard, fire crews and an air ambulance were called to the rescue
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Fields searched in hunt for man who vanished from Looe holiday park over two weeks ago
Looe
HM Coastguard, mountain search and air search teams have aided the search for Craig Roberts
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Person evacuated from luxury cruise ship in Falmouth Harbour
Falmouth Coastguard
Falmouth Coastguard evacuated a person off the luxury cruise ship
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RNLI and coastguard teams were sent to help ice cream van in sea
Coastguard
It was a sundae to forget for the driver
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Swimmer caught in rip current drowns after being lost at sea
Bude
He was lost at sea and a body was found on a nearby beach
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