A woman was airlifted to ankle after she fractured her ankle while looking for puffins at Yorkshire’s renowned bird-watching spot on Bempton Cliffs.

Halloran’s last puffin watch for Friends of Haystack Rock was last August. “You know, I’m getting older,” he said. “I’m 76, and getting up early is more and more of a chore.

Smallest of the four puffin species, they have come en masse to breed on Britain’s rumpled islands and coasts, the more remote, unpeopled, and predator free, the better. No one is certain ...