VOLUNTEERS from Conwy’s Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) crew rescued eight people cut off from the shore by an incoming tide at the northern end of West Shore on Saturday (August 27).

Crew pagers were sounded at 8.19pm and its inshore lifeboat, the May-Bob, was launched, with three volunteer members onboard to assist the people cut off.

With night fall setting in, the lifeboat arrived on the scene, where six children and two adults were in the water, struggling to make it ashore from a sandbank at West Shore which had been fully cut off by the tide.

Of these people, two were members of the public who had seen the initial group of six struggling to get ashore, so went to assist them.

When the lifeboat arrived, the adults were chest-deep in water with the six casualties.

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All eight casualties were taken safely ashore by the lifeboat crew of Steve, and brothers Tom and Matt, where they were met by the Llandudno Coastguard team and police.

The lifeboat then returned to the boathouse where the boat was recovered, washed down, refuelled and made ready for its next request.

A Conwy Lifeboat spokesperson added: “A big thanks to these two adults for their efforts in helping save this group of six.”