Emergency crews were scrambled into action in the middle of the night in search of a missing woman in Whitstable.

Police were called at 12.30am last night about a woman in her 30s whose welfare was thought to be at risk.

Whitstable lifeboat was launched at 12.40am, searching from the harbour to Long Rock beach at Swalecliffe.

A team from Herne Bay Mobile Coastguard Unit found the woman on the Tankerton Slopes at about 1.20pm.