Port Erin, Isle of Man. At six o'clock on the morning of the 9th of July, 1958, a member of the branch committee telephoned the honorary secretary to say he had been woken by the noise of a ship's siren sounding several short blasts...
Exhausted windsurfer A WINDSURFER had got into difficulties 300 feet off Morecambe stone jetty on the afternoon of Tuesday August 20, 1985. He was spotted from the promenade by a passer-by who immediately rang Liverpool coastguard. By 1420...
As he restrings his tenor guitar, Seth Lakeman can’t help but have a smile on his face. He’s backstage at a music festival, enjoying the calm before another whirlwind performance. A few days earlier, his new album was propelled into the top...
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Difficult conditions as two casualties are taken from the shore The rescue of two people cut off by the tide in difficult and dangerous conditions has led to Sean Baxter, the helmsman of Staithes and Runswick's Atlantic 21 lifeboat,...
THE Life-boat Station at Pakefield, in Suffolk, which was established in 1840, was closed last year, and the Service Boards which hung in the Boat-house will find a permanent and honoured place in Pakefield Church, where a special service...
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GOLDEN CHARTER / FUNERAL PLANS The nnly plan recommended by Ihe National Society of Allied & Independent Funeral Directors HAVE YOU EVER tried to speak to your family about when you're gone? If they don't want to listen, it's...
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11 ! iiJlll «& GOLDEN CHARTER R ' N l - K A L PLANS THE ONLY FUNERAL PIAN RECOMMENDED BY THE NATION*. SOCIETY OF ALLIED & INDEPENDENT FUNERAL DIRECTORS •box YOUR CHILDREN PROBABLY WON'T WANT TO THINK ABOUT THIS, HAVE YOU...
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GOLDEN CHARTER F U N E R A L PLANS THE ONLY FUNERW. PLAN RECOMMENDED BY THE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF ALLIED S INDEPENDENT FUNERAL DIRECTORS YOUR CHILDREN PROBABLY WON'T WANT TO THINK ABOUT THIS, HAVE YOU EVER tried to speak to your family...
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THE new motor life-boat at Llandudno which has replaced a pulling and sailing life-boat, was formally inaugurated on 28th September. She is a Welsh gift, having been built out of legacies received from the late Dr. Thomas Richards, of...
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Tynemouth, Northumberland, and Sunderland, Co. Durham.—18th February. An empty tug had broken away from tow, but was picked up by a steamer.—• Rewards, Tynemouth, £22 3s. 6d.; Sunderland, £19 5s. 3d..