RESCUE equipment from Exmouth fire station was on Friday night used to free a man trapped in a car which was involved in a collision with a double-decker bus.

RESCUE equipment from Exmouth fire station was on Friday night used to free a man trapped in a car which was involved in a collision with a double-decker bus.

The Exmouth firefighters were called to Uplyme, in Lyme Regis, where they used hydraulic cutting equipment to free the casualty before he was airlifted to hospital by police helicopter.