

She was alive and moving her head around.

When I got the drone up, I could see Cola perched halfway down within a couple of minutes. Mr James said: “I could see a bit of flattened grass right by the edge of the cliff and it made me think she might have gone over.

He went down to the beach and was able to scramble up the cliff to reach Cola and bring her back down to her relieved owners. Mr James, 47, launched his drone from the spot and within two minutes spotted Cola perched precariously on a ledge just over half way down the clay cliff. The charity’s founder Phil James, a former Metropolitan Police constable, drove for three hours from his home in Nottingham to join the search on Thursday evening. Miss Ledger finally contacted a website for the charity Drone to Home which specialises in finding lost dogs. On Thursday morning, Mr and Mrs Derkacz feared the worst when there was still no sign after a thunderstorm and torrential downpour overnight. Miss Ledger arranged social media appeals and around 60 local villagers turned out to look for Cola with Mrs Derkacz and her husband Richard over the next two days.įive people with drones also joined the search along with a person who had an infrared camera, but no trace of Cola was found. Joanne Ledger, 55, another local dog owner out on the cliff tops that day offered to organise a search.
