Updated 8:06pm 30 May 2012

Liverpool’s Med SOS

LIVERPOOL Coast-guards were called to help in an emergency 2,000 miles away.

Merseyside officers yesterday found them-selves alerting the Med-iterranean authorities after a yacht with 30 migrants got into diffi-culty near Malta.

Coastguard officer Ian Jackson said: “One of the occupants had a satellite phone, but the only person he could get in contact with was in Manchester. Man-chester Police in turn contacted us, and we were then able to alert the authorities in the Mediterranean who co-ordinated the operation with the Maltese Coastguard from there.”

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