A RESCUE was launched after a jet ski with an adult and child was reported missing off the North Yorkshire coast.

Scarborough’s RNLI inshore lifeboat was launched at 12:27pm yesterday after a call from Humber Coastguard.

A member of the public had reported that a jet ski had launched in the North Bay had not returned to the beach.

The lifeboat crew found the jet ski on rocks with nobody on board. It turned out the people had left the jet ski and were walking back to the beach along the rocks, and they were met by coastguard staff on the way.

The lifeboat crew returned the jet ski to its owner.