Staff of the listening bank heard a plea for cash from the RNLI and raised more than £4,000 to help. Over 400 staff from 38 Midland Bank branches attended a sponsored skittles and snooker evening at the International Snooker Hall in Aston and raised a total of £4,250 which regional organiser Mr Richard Mann, pictured right, accepted from area manager Mr Ben Fleet at a presentation in the Bennetts Hill branch. In return Mr Mann gave the bank a thank-you plaque.

photograph by courtesy of Birmingham Evening Mail.