A COUPLE were marooned off the River Medway for six hours when their boat got stuck.

The man and woman had to be rescued by a lifeboat crew after their rigid inflatable boat ran aground off the Isle of Grain on Friday night.

Coastguards said they had been on their way back to the River Thames from Whitstable when their boat, the Worcester Stock, hit a sand spit at low tide.

The rising tide refloated them and they could be picked up by the inshore lifeboat crew from Sheerness RNLI station.

The couple were very cold when they were found but are not thought to have been hurt.

A Coastguard spokesman said: "They were taken ashore by Sheerness inshore lifeboat once they'd refloated, because our people couldn't get out there due to the sands, and being night time it's quite treacherous."