A RESCUE team was called out twice over the weekend to help youngsters in difficulty on the moors.

The start of the school Easter holidays saw volunteers from Cleveland Mountain Rescue Team (MRT) called out on Sunday (April 9) to a 13-year-old motorcycle scrambler and later a 12-year-old girl, both of whom had suffered leg injuries.

They were alerted at 11.20am to reports of a 13-year-old motorcyclist at Slapewath near Guisborough who had fallen from his bike and sustained leg injuries.

The local youngster was initially treated by the crew of the Great North Air Ambulance, but was on very steep ground. The air ambulance requested the rescue team’s help in getting the casualty to safety. Fourteen members of the team attended and they carried the injured boy on a mountain rescue stretcher up the slope for about 200 metres to the air ambulance.

Team spokesman Pete Mounsey said as they were repacking their rescue gear at about 1.20pm, another call came to help a girl who had fallen.

“A 12-year-old Eston girl had fallen on the steep slopes below Roseberry Topping sustained leg injuries.

“She was treated at the scene by an ambulance paramedic and our team doctor before being evacuated from the hillside in one of our Land Rover ambulances.

“She was transferred to an ambulance at Aireyholme Farm above Great Ayton and taken to James Cook Hospital for treatment.”