A rugger match (below) between the Golden Hart Irresponsibles and the Floating Bridge Sludgers was one of the uproarious events by which West Country Watney taverns and innkeepers raised money to pay for radar and DF aboard Yarmouth's new Arun lifeboat.

Phil Wright, Exeter Inn, Topsham, raised £.222 with a pile of pennies (right). Mr Wright, whose pub raised £.458, with two of his customers undertook a 47-mile sponsored walk from Topsham to the Ship Inn, Plymouth; they kept going throughout a night of high winds and torrential rain to raise £207..