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By Community Correspondent Lifeboat Operations Manager Mike Picknett received his 40 years long service award in front of fellow volunteer crew members recently. Mike fist started helping at the lifeboat station as an 11-year-old. He officially joined the crew in 1985, aged 17 and progressed quickly to become a Helm
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By Community Correspondent In May last year crew member Mark, who works as a session musician, had been moving boats with friends on the Thames while off-duty when he heard a pan-pan call on the radio. A woman had been found face down in the water, unconscious and not breathing.
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By Jill Dando News The RNLI is marking the 85th anniversary of Dunkirk by releasing striking, newly colourised imagery of the lifeboat and crew from Margate Station that took part in Operation Dynamo. The two new images have been painstakingly cleaned and colourised using digital technology to mark the bravery
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By Jill Dando News The report, compiled by the Worshipful Company of Actuaries for the RNLI, revealed the estimated figure using in-depth analysis based on the RNLI’s lives saved data and the assessment of the numbers of descendants who were subsequently born following a life being saved. In order
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By Jill Dando News The rescue of Birnbeck Pier in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, is attracting support from many different sections of the community. During the many years that it will take for North Somerset Council to restore the Pier structure, Birnbeck Island and the headland buildings, the project is set to
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By Jill Dando News A very special lifeboat exercise for Appledore RNLI – end of an era and a standing ovation for 80 years of unstinting lifesaving service. On Tuesday 1 April Appledore RNLI had a very special and meaningful lifeboat exercise: the last exercise for both our full time Coxswain,
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By Jill Dando News This St Davids Day, a climber who fell 40ft causing catastrophic injuries including fractures to her neck, spine and leg, is thanking the Welsh Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) volunteers who saved her life in May last year. Vicki Hau (37) was climbing at the headland
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By Jill Dando News The dog had jumped out of its owners car when they opened the boot and ran down to the sea and swam out. Following a 999 call to the Coastguard by the dog's owners, the charity’s Atlantic 85 lifeboat Rose of the Shires
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By Jill Dando News Olive, the Airedale Terrier who was rescued by Wells RNLI on Sunday 29 December after a life-threatening emergency, visited the station with her family and four-legged companion Nell to express their immense gratitude to the crew who saved her life. Olive had been found unresponsive in
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By Jill Dando News Lifeboat crew from Chiswick RNLI were called to help breakfast radio DJ Jordan North when he got into trouble in the River Thames after he rescued a dog struggling in the water. On Monday (December 16) at 5.05pm a member of the public raised the