TWO council workers and a lifeboat crew pulled an elderly man from the sea during a dramatic rescue in Beaumaris.

The man had been walking with his wife along the promenade when he slipped and fell into the water early on Wednesday morning.

His wife raised the alarm and passer by Wynn Roberts and Gwynfor Owen, both employees of Beaumaris Town Council, who were in the area came to his aid.

They managed to get a rope to the casualty and stayed with him until the Beaumaris lifeboat crew and the Penmon Coastguard Rescue Team arrived.

The volunteer crew members of the RNLI Beaumaris lifeboat had received a launch request at 8.35am to investigate reports of a person in the water by the promenade.

But when the crew arrived it was discovered that the casualty was so close inshore, within a few hundred yards of the Beaumaris boathouse, it was not necessary to launch the lifeboat.

However, the crew did enter the sea wearing full lifeboat kit.

John Pulford of the Beaumaris lifeboat crew said: "It transpired that an elderly gentleman had been walking with his wife along the promenade when he slipped and fell into the water.

"The attending lifeboat volunteers suspected that the casualty might have a broken leg, so he was placed upon a stretcher, normally carried on the Annette Mary Liddington, the Beaumaris Inshore Atlantic 85 lifeboat.

"The crew members then carried the gentleman on the stretcher into the lifeboat house and monitored as he was also very cold pending the arrival of the ambulance which took the casualty to hospital."