Woman safe after emergency services called to Sunderland's Wearmouth Bridge
Police and firecrews were called to the southern end of the Wearmouth Bridge.
A Northumbria Police spokeswoman said: "At about 7am today, police received a report of a concern for a woman on Wearmouth Bridge after she was seen on the other side of the barriers.
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Sunderland lifeboat was also in attendance.
An RNLI statement said: "Our volunteers were paged by UK Coastguard this morning to assist Northumbria Police and other emergency services at an incident at Wearmouth Bridge.
"Our @rnli D class inshore lifeboat was launched and stood by at the scene until thankfully after about 30 minutes the crew were stood down when the incident was resolved."