Two of the drivers. Peter Marlow (I) and Paul Selway (r), who took part in a sponsored drive around the lifeboat stations of the South West, organised by Pill branch, Bristol, last September.

They are seen here outside the South West district office in Bristol with their Ford Orion car, kindly loaned by UBM Ford.

The 695.6 mile drive took them from Bristol, around the Cornish, Devon and Dorset coast to Poole and finally back to Bristol. The distance covered was guessed correctly by Alan James of Portishead who won a weekend in Paris, donated by Thomas Cook, and the branch made £1,100 out of the venture..