Pupils from 15 Leicestershire schools have raised more than £8,250 to buy a lifeboat. A series of sponsored swims raised the money which has paid for an inshore boat at Happisburgh. The crew were presented with the money by three pupils representing the schools. In the picture Liz Dempsey and Steven Jarvis join the coxswain and crew (I to r) Cubitt Siely, Tony Mar;;ns, Steve Jeckells and Cedric Cox.

photograph by courtesy of Leicester Mercury.