A SEARCH and rescue team was called in to help a man taken ill while walking on the moors above Haworth.

Eighteen members of the Calder Valley team went to the aid of the walker, who was suffering from chest pains.

The volunteers had been asked by Yorkshire Ambulance Service to attend the scene, at Bronte Waterfall, yesterday afternoon.

Team spokesman, Tim Ingram, said: "Working with paramedics, we treated the patient and reassured his family, who were close by.

"Once the patient was comfortable, he was placed on our stretcher and carried approximately 500 metres uphill to where an ambulance was waiting."

It was a busy day for the team, which also helped police with two searches for missing people in the Calderdale area.