Foragers rescued from island after eating hemlock

A pair of experienced foragers had to be rescued from an island after potentially eating poisonous hemlock, coastguards have said.

Barry Dock RNLI sent a lifeboat crew to Sully Island, off the Vale of Glamorgan coast, where the foragers were found in an anxious state.

They were moved from the island's eastern beach to the mainland where Barry Coastguard Rescue Team found they had high pulse rates and put them on oxygen.

Hemlock with its umbrella-like clusters of white flowers looks and smells like parsley and has toxins that can cause death by attacking a person's nervous system.