A NINE year-old girl wearing an inflatable ring drifted out to sea off Charmouth beach on Bank Holiday Monday.

A NINE year-old girl wearing an inflatable ring drifted out to sea off Charmouth beach on Bank Holiday Monday.The Lyme Regis RNLI lifeboat was launched at 4.40pm, but the girl's 39-year-old father had already swam some 100 metres to rescue her.