A DOZEN members of Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team treated a 76-year-old woman from Kinross who had fractured her ankle on the Ullswater shore path between Howtown and Patterdale on Monday. The team transported her by stretcher to the rescue boat and she was taken to the other side of the lake. The woman was transferred to a county ambulance and taken to the Cumberland Infirmary at Carlisle for treatment.
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