A TUNE FAMILIAR TO MILLIONS greeted Jan Harvey as she arrived at RNLI headquarters to draw the 33rd national lottery on April 30; it was the theme to Howard's Way, the BBC TV series in which she stars. Miss Harvey had kindly travelled to Poole from Southampton where she was filming another series of the programme. Born in Penzance, she told everyone present that she felt honoured to be asked to make the draw; a good friend of hers was among the Penlee lifeboat crew lost in 1981 and she was glad to be able to help the RNLI in this way.

Supervising the draw for the first time was the new chairman of the fund raising committee, The Lord Stanley of Alderley. The prizewinners were: £2,000: Mrs Holliday, Barnet, Herts.

£500: Mr and Mrs A. B. Churcher, Broadstone, Dorset.

£250: Mr J. P. Hamilton, London SW4.

£100: Mr Holder, Upton-upon-Severn, Worcestershire; Mrs C. Morris, Cromer, Norfolk; Susan Pattie, North Shields, Tyne and Wear; Mrs N. Tones, Durham; Mr H. F.

Mitchell, Wood Green, London; Mr W. Dalkin, Poole, Dorset; Miss D. A. Berry, Dartford, Kent.

£50: Miss V. S. Lee, Smallfield, Surrey; Mr A. L. Hancock, Folkestone, Kent; Mr J. Drummond, Stevenage, Hertfordshire; Mr J. N. Jones, Stockton, Cleveland; Mrs J. M.

Grant, Guildford, Surrey; Mr R.

Carter, Harrogate, North Yorkshire; Mr J. Loveday, Warminster, Wiltshire; Sandra Brown, Stockport, Lancashire; Mr W. L.

Guthrie, Dunbar; Lt Commander R. L. Lang-Hall, Wareham, Dorset.

The draw for the 34th national lottery will be held on July 31, 1986, at Poole head office.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: Bridlington Coxswain F. Walkington Bude Crew Member M. M. Moyle Burnham on Crouch Crew Member D. R. A. Glaze Galway Bay Assistant Mechanic J. Mulkerrin Margate Crew Member L. A. Manning Porthcawl Crew Member K. E. Evans Port Talbot Crew Member N. McNaught Shore Helper H. Butler Tenby Coxswain A. ThomasBooks, continued New Brighton men in preparedness to accept new concepts showed itself again, much more recently, when in 1972 an Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable lifeboat was introduced at the station.

This class of lifeboat very quickly proved itself and in 1974 Helmsman Bev Brown was awarded the Institution's silver medal for rescuing three men from a fishing boat.—E.W-W.

• A revised reprint of George Edmunds' The Gower Coast (£5.50 plus 75p post and packing, Regional Publications, Dept DBS, 5 Springfield Road, Abergavenny, Gwent, NP7 5TD) is now available. Apart from the local legend and folk memory that it covers, there is also a complete list of all known shipwrecks around the peninsula with many lifeboat rescue stories recounted.

Some of the book's 60 photographs show old horse-drawn, pulling lifeboats.

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