Teenager airlifted from Scarba after ravine plunge

An RAF helicopter from HMS Gannet at Prestwick airlifted a thirteen year-old Yorkshire boy from Argyll’s Isle of Scarba to Paisley’s Royal Alexandra Hospital, with Coastguards from Oban and Appin also called out and reckoning the boy was lucky to be alive. He and others on an activity trip to the island had evidently been looking at a waterfall when he fell – avoiding all the rocks on the way down and finishing up with no more than a broken leg.