内容摘要："It would be easy to see [her] dancing and performing, singing, twirling her hair and leading everybody else".

"It would be easy to see [her] dancing and performing, singing, twirling her hair and leading everybody else".

A vet and two volunteers scanned the beach with no joy – and when they asked the caller for an exact location, they realised it was a large seal-shaped rock.Aaron Goss, lead rescuer at the charity, said: "We are frequently telling people not to approach seals and to not disturb them. The rock did look like a seal, so the member of the public [has] done the right thing."

He added: "They have stayed back and contacted [us] to give us the heads up, so they have done nothing wrong at all and, of course, it is quite humorous that it was just a rock."I don't know where she heard the crying from, but that's not a problem – maybe it was a passing gull!"Mr Goss said the call-out came from the Wonderland end of the beach.

"She was adamant it was not moving very much but she said it had been moving and she could hear it calling," he said."A guy had zoomed in on his phone camera and it was definitely a seal.

"We were scanning the beach for a really long time, trying to figure out where on earth is this seal.

"Eventually, we called her back and asked her for a bit more information, and managed to find – from the description that she had given with the new location –that it was definitely a rock.""I did a pie and pasty challenge in Exmouth, I dressed in a stem cell for that. I was the only person dressed in fancy costume."

Ms Cato said she has been watching the London Marathon "since it's been on telly"."I just feel really emotional about it," she added. "I really want to do well and do my family proud."

An 87-year-old man is setting out to prove that age is just a number by completing a 50km (31-mile) ultra marathon.Paul Youd, from Taunton, Somerset, is a seasoned runner and has earned a reputation for taking on crazy challenges in the name of charity.