Pokémon Go players narrowly escape Weston-super-Mare tide

Lifeboat launched to rescue group who became trapped on Birnbeck Island in Somerset before finding their way to safety

A group of six teenage Poki(C)mon Go players had a lucky escape on Thursday night after almost getting cut off by the rising tide off Weston-super-Mare, Somerset.

Weston's volunteer lifeboat crew were alerted by Milford Haven coastguard shortly before 9pm to rescue the teenagers, who were searching for Poki(C)mon on Birnbeck Island, which is cut off from the mainland at high tide apart from the partly collapsed, and unsafe, old pier.