A Paramedic from Dorset has been deployed to New Zealand to help victims of the devestating earthquake that's claimed over 1 hundred lives.

David Murdoch - from Wimborne - is part of a team of British Aid Workers who are on standby to provide medical assistance in the event of a disaster.

The father of two has flown nearly 14 thousand miles to Christchurch to help deal with the rising amuont of casualities caught up in Tuesday's earthquake.