VOLUNTEER lifeboat crew helped search for a missing woman in the early hours of the morning.

The RNLI lifeboat was requested to launch by the coastguard at just after midnight on Sunday and asked to carry out a shoreline search between Lyme Regis and Seaton.

The lifeboat crew were at sea for an hour and the search was called off when coastguards found the woman safe and well at the western end of Monmouth Beach.