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Completed picture: the final jigsaw piece was fitted to the Edinburgh lifeboat appeal on Wednesday August 14, 1985, when Tennent Caledonian Breweries handed over a cheque for £5,000, the final amount needed to achieve the appeal's target of £430,000. A Tennent's 'can girl' performs the honour with (I to r) Mr Evelyn Matthews, the breweries' sales director, appeal secretary Andrew Cubic and appeal chairman, former Lord Provost Tom Morgan. A cheque for £68,000 from the estate of the late Mr and Mrs D. G. F. Rudd towards the maintenance and running costs of Fraserburgh's new lifeboat was also handed over on the same day by the estate's executrix, Miss J. Courtney. photograph by courtesy of The Scotsman.
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