Fund raisers from the Midlands manned the RNLI stand at the National Exhibition Centre; 123 Shoreline and 36 Storm Force members were enrolled and takings amounted to an impressive £8,521. The main RNLI exhibit was the new St Agnes D class inflatable lifeboat, Blue Peter IV, one of the replacement lifeboats funded by the recent Blue Peter BBC television appeal. The photograph (r) shows television and radio personality Rosie, of the programme The Barmaid's Arms, enlisting her son Stephen to Storm Force. Also pictured is Holyhead's Coxswain Will Jones and (1) David Clifford, a ten-year-old branch member from Erdington..