Emergency services responded to reports raising concern for a woman’s welfare. 

Officers received a report at around 2.13pm yesterday raising concern for a woman in the area of the Nothe Fort in Weymouth.

According to police, she entered the water and then came out again near the large rocks.

Police and the ambulance service took the woman to a place of safety to received the appropriate care around 30 minutes after the report came in.

Coastguard Rescue Teams (CRTs) from Portland and Wyke were also called to the scene, alongside an RNLI Weymouth lifeboat and Dorset Fire and Rescue Service. 

A spokesperson for Dorset Police said: “At 2.13pm on Sunday, October 20, we received a report raising concern for the welfare of a woman in the area of the Nothe Fort in Weymouth.

"According to our logs, she entered the water and then came out again near the large rocks.

“Officers attended with the ambulance service and the woman was taken to a place of safety to receive appropriate care at around 2.40pm.”

A spokesperson for HM Coastguard said: "On Sunday, October 20, HM Coastguard was called to an incident at Newtons Cove near Weymouth.

"The alarm was raised at around 2.15pm, and Coastguard Rescue Teams (CRTs) from Portland and Wyke were called to the scene, alongside an RNLI Weymouth lifeboat, Dorset Fire and Rescue Service, South Western Ambulance Service and Dorset Police."

A spokesperson for the South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SWASFT) said: “We were called at 13:58hrs on Sunday 20 October to an incident in Weymouth.

"We sent one double-crewed ambulance and an operations officer to the scene. We conveyed one patient by land ambulance to hospital."