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Newhaven, Sussex.—At eight o'clock on the evening of the 14th of August, 1955, the coastguard telephoned that two people were cut off by the tide three hundred yards east of Splash Point, Seaford. Eight minutes later the life-boat Cecil and Lilian Philpott was launched, taking a dinghy with her. The sea was calm, there was a light breeze, and it was one hour before high water. The life-boat found a man and a woman, rescued them, and returned to her station, arriving at nine o'clock.—Rewards to the crew, £7; rewards to the helpers on shore, £3 12s..