Sponsored walks are common enough these days but the 15th Long Eaton Venture Scout unit, in Nottinghamshire, decided to bring some water into the proceedings—by holding a sponsored row on 5th July, 1969. The proceeds were divided between the...
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THE ANNUAL ACCOUNTS submitted to the Institution's governors at the Royal Festival Hall in London on May 15 showed that Shoreline had contributed £934,400 to the RNLI's funds in 1983, an increase of more than £165,000. At...
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An 11-year-old girl and her father were surfing on holiday in North Cornwall when the high tide swept them away. It was early evening on 10 August when a horrified mother watched her daughter and husband drifting further and further away...
Direct debits On the sheet that carried your address label with this journal, you will find a direct debit form. The label carries a code which is either DD-PC or NN-NA. If your code is DD-PC we hope you will consider completing this form...
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75 years ago From THE LIFEBOAT of 1921 The Ladies' Life-boat Guild.
THE Institution has owed in the past, and still owes, so much to the generous and devoted service of women, that the Committee have long thought that...
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It is not only to our Life-boat workers, that we are indebted for help in raising funds. Numbers of the men and women who take part in the sterner side of Life-boat work on the coast have given us generous help on the financial side as well....
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Tenby
RESCUEE RETURNS WITH THANKS
James Probert says he ‘simply would not be here’ if not for the quick and professional response of his rescuers. The 58-year-old father of four collapsed in a car park...
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Photos: The Press and Journal, RNLI/(Buckie, Longhope, Mary Harris)
Local stations mark 50th...
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The History of the Plymouth Lifeboats by Jeff Morris published by the author at £2.50 The second edition of one of Jeff Moriss's comprehensive local lifeboat guides, which brings the history of this particular station up to 1994.<...
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