Hastings women free trapped dolphin in dramatic sea rescue

Amy Walker, Carrie Warrior and Sarah Gale spotted the dolphin in the sea at Rock-a-Nore.

Two of the women plunged into the icy waters to manoeuvre the dolphin in the dramatic rescue, which had become trapped in a rock gulley.

They struggled against the incoming tide before releasing the dolphin so it could swim away towards Bexhill.

The trio, from Hastings Rounders, were out on the sports team’s Christmas walk when they saw massed gulls hovering in the sky.

Amy, a TV producer, who chairs Hastings Rounders, said: “We stopped to watch as the birds looked quite unusual, and then we saw a fin.”

She ran down the rocks at Rock-a-Nore, with Carrie, an artist and Sarah Gale, a retail sales assistant at Asda.