TWO people were rescued from the water at a New Forest village.

Coastguard rescue teams from Lymington and Hillhead, along with an RNLI lifeboat, were called out to a report of people in the water at Keyhaven.

They received the alert at around 4.11pm on Monday.

Two people were taken safely to shore by the Keyhaven river warden with no further coastguard assistance required.

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