Mij best rescue dog Britain who has saved 14 lives

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The real life Lassie: How Mij went from a tiny bundle of fluff to the best rescue dog Britain who has saved 14 lives

Mij led more than 200 search and rescue missions during her career
The collie helped develop a pioneering scent detection technique
But after seven years saving lives the 10-year-old collie is retiring

Britain's top rescue dog has finally hung up her lead after a career that saw her save more lives than any other dog and develop a pioneering scent detection technique.

Mij led more than 200 search and rescue missions during her career and rescued 14 people who police had been searching for.

She was so successful she was dubbed Britain's real-life Lassie, after the fictional dog from Eric Knight's 1940 novel Lassie Come-Home.



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Couple Stuck in QuickSand spark full scale rescue

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Dramatic moment couple spark full-scale rescue after getting stuck in quicksand up to their waists just yards from the shore

The man and woman were pulled from quicksand in race against high tide
Their pet dog managed to free itself from the beach at Sandside, Cumbria
Coastguard and MPs warn people to stay away from 'dangerous' bay

A couple had to be rescued in a race against the high tide when they found themselves trapped waist-high in quicksand on a Cumbrian beach.

The man, 46, and woman, 25, screamed for help as they began to sink - only a fortnight after a 14-year-old girl became trapped at the same spot.

The woman was submerged up to her waist and the man stuck from his knees down before they were pulled from the quicksand on Sunday afternoon in a 40-minute rescue operation.

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