Fear girl, 13, and friend had been cut off by tide
Published Date:
05 September 2008
By Louise Brain
A GRANDMOTHER has told of the awful moment she thought her 13-year-old granddaughter and friend had been cut off by the tide at Snettisham.
Rita Picton (69) and husband Michael (74) raised the alarm with the coastguard and Hunstanton hovercraft plucked the girls off the distant tideline. Mrs Picton, of Earl Close, Dersingham, said: “I should have warned them not to go out of sight. I was so worried.
“I just had visions of them disappearing in the mud. You really have got to be aware of the tides.”
The girls, Rebecca Picton and her friend Tia Christie, who were visiting Rebecca’s grandparents from Luton, took a thank you note and some biscuits to Hunstanton Lifeboat Station to show their gratitude to the crew who saved them on Sunday afternoon.
They had been oblivious to the danger they were in until the hovercraft arrived.
The full article contains 158 words and appears in Lynn News Friday newspaper.
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Last Updated:
04 September 2008 10:42 AM
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Source:
Lynn News Friday
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Location:
King's Lynn
