Two rescued after bridge collapses in North Yorkshire

TWO air ambulances were scrambled to a village in North Yorkshire this afternoon after reports of a bridge collapsing leaving two people in flood waters.

The Yorkshire Air Ambulance and the Great North Air Ambulance were called to High Askew near the village of Cropton on the North York Moors.

The two people rescued, believed to be members of a shooting party, were flown to James Cook University Hospital.

North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service said they were not attending the incident.