MOUNTAIN rescuers were scrambled after a Bolton woman was injured on moorland.

Denise Ramsay, aged 68, of Regent Road, Lostock, fell 8ft on to her face and lost a tooth while trying to climb a stile at Cadshaw Quarries, near Entwistle Reservoir, on Saturday afternoon.

She went into shock and two of her fellow ramblers ran to an isolated farm to call for help.

Another rambler put her tooth into a flask of milk to try to save it.

But ambulance crews could not get to Mrs Ramsay, so the Bolton Mountain Rescue Team was called in.

Mountain rescuers lifted her on to a stretcher before carrying her to a Land Rover to take her off the moors.

She was transferred by ambulance to the Royal Bolton Hospital and later underwent surgery to put her tooth back in.

Former Warrington College lecturer Mrs Ramsay, had been walking with her husband and 17 other members of the Bolton Countryside Holiday Association Rambling Club in Entwistle. Her group had just crossed a bridge over a stream at the top end of the reservoir and were crossing a stile in the wire fence when the accident happened.

Mrs Ramsay waited for an hour while medical services arrived but was helped by the rambling group who stood around her to shield her from the wind and put aluminium foil around her to keep her warm.

Husband Alan Ramsay, aged 69, a former lecturer at Bolton Institute, praised the mountain rescue service and the fellow hikers. He said: "It was quite a display of solidarity and help."

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