A newspaper journalist has today (May 13th) been charged with calling out the Keswick Mountain Rescue team on a false alarm.

Sarah Louise Crickmer, a 27-year-old from South Shields on Tyneside is facing two counts under section 127 of the Communications Act 2003 after allegations that she made a call to the rescue team during the flash floods that ripped through Cumbria last autumn.

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