New Year Honours Among the awards announced in the New Year Honours list were: Knights Bachelor Rear Admiral Morgan Morgan Giles, DSO QBE GM. For political service. Admiral Sir Morgan Morgan Giles has been a member of the Committee of Management since 1971.

David Robinson. For charitable services.

He funded the Penlee lifeboat, Mabel Alice, and the Buckie lifeboat, Charles Brown.

The Right Honourable Edward du Cann, MP. For political and public service. Sir Edward is chairman of the Wellington branch.

Fergus Montgomery, MP. For political service. Sir Fergus is the president of the Altrincham and Bowden branch.

MBE John Malcolm Freswick Groat, honorary secretary of the Longhope lifeboat station since 1962. He was awarded a stauette in 1969 and binoculars in 1977.

BEM Nigel A. Saint, motor mechanic of the Aldeburgh lifeboat. Mr Saint joined the lifeboat crew in 1961 as reserve mechanic and was appointed mechanic later that year. He was awarded the thanks of the Institution on vellum in 1972 and a long service badge in 1982.

Peter Jones, assistant motor mechanic of Hoylake lifeboat. For service to the gas industry. Mr Jones joined the lifeboat crew in 1953 and was appointed assistant mechanic in 1975. He was awarded a long service badge in 1983.New RNLI film THE BBC TV series, Lifeboat, shown during January to March 1984 and repeated on BBC2 recently, has been condensed into two thirty minute films by John Gau Productions.

The two films outline the life of the full-time lifeboatmen at Spurn Point and their work on the Humber lifeboat.

They feature real life rescues, varying from fighting a fire on a fishing boat to the saving of four teenagers and a baby from an inflatable dinghy. Plenty of rough seas plus shots of other classes of lifeboat make these films well worth seeing. There is a good commentary throughout and interviews with Coxswain Brian Bevan and other members of the crew. Both 16mm films and VHS videos are available for group showings through Viscom, the film lending library, Park Hall Trading Estate, London SE2 8EL. Telephone 01-761 3035.

LONG SERVICE AWARDS THE LONG SERVICE BADGE for crew members and shore helpers who have given active service for 20 years or more has been awarded to: Appledore Second Coxswain J. W. Pavitt Assistant Mechanic B. E. Williams Cromer Shore Helper L. B. Harrison Dungeness Motor Mechanic/Second Coxswain P. J.

Richardson Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Coxswain/Mechanic R. J. Hawkins Whitstable Crew Member M. Judge Shore Helper P. Kemp In the last quarter's list of long service awards the entry under Rhyl should have read Emergency Mechanic D.

Phillipson and not Shore Helper D.

Phillipson..