An injured mountain biker had to be rescued from a quarry after falling and breaking his leg.
The man, believed to be in his early 20s, was airlifted to the Royal Derby Hospital after firefighters pulled him from a quarry in Nanpantan Road, near Loughborough, yesterday (SAT).
Police, fire and the air ambulance were called to the scene at about 2.15pm.
The cyclist was put on a stretcher and had a splint placed on his left leg while firefighters carried him out of the pit.
They brought him to a waiting air ambulance helicopter which had landed about half a kilometre away.
He was assessed by paramedics and flown to hospital for treatment.
Firefighter Neil Mayne, the technical rescue watch manager at southern station, was at the scene.
He said: "It was pretty steep and a bit slippy, but we were able to get him out fairly easily.
"He had to have his leg put in a splint, but that was the worst of it.
"I don't think he'd been down there very long because he had someone with him, so they called the emergency services straightaway."
