Firefighters rescued a 13 year old free runner from the roof of a Poole church on Sunday.

The boy hurt his knee while trying to scal the roof of the United Reformed Church in Skinner Street.

Fire crews used a ladder to assist the boy back to the ground.

A spokesman for Dorset Police said officers were called to the United Reformed Church in Skinner Street, Poole at 2.45pm on Sunday.

They were initially told five young people were there but when they arrived there were only two.

The boy was not seriously hurt and did not need hospital treatment. No arrests were made.

Free-running is a kind of urban acrobatics and involves street stunts performed using the urban landscape.