Emergency services rescue dog trapped on South Shields cliff

South Shields Volunteer Life Brigade and Sunderland Coastguard worked together to reach the pet at Trow Quarry, South Shields, at 5.13pm on Friday, March 5.

A spokesperson for brigade said: “We lowered one of the Sunderland rope rescue technicians to the dog, a chocolate labrador, and secured him in our special animal rescue bag.

"He was then lowered to the bottom of the cliff to his awaiting owner, no worse for his ordeal.”

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