VIDEO: Helicopter rescues teenager from top of Wallace Monument

A helicopter crew was called to rescue an injured teenager from the top of the Wallace Monument, near Stirling.

The 17-year-old suffered a dislocated knee just a few steps from the highest level of the 220ft tower.

Medics were unable to take the man back down via the narrow staircase so a rescue Sea King helicopter from RAF Lossiemouth was scrambled to the scene just after 1pm.

The young patient was winched into the copter and brought to land near a waiting ambulance.

A Scottish Ambulance Service spokesman said: “There was a patient with a dislocated knee.

“They were taken off by helicopter as it was safer than taking them down the stairs.”