A smashing time! Watched by crew members of the Aberdeen lifeboat, Alister Yorston, district manager of United Rum Merchants and Norman Trewren, coxswain, broke open pub collection bottles for the RNLI. Aberdeen-based Watsons Rum has built its advertising campaign around the RNLI and, in addition to the cash in the bottles, firm make a donation to the RNLI for every case of their rum sold.

Already, £6,000 has been raised.

photograph by courtesy of A berdeen Journals.