It's a dog's life...

...for Molly When the crew of Walmer's D class inflatable lifeboat received a report from Dover Coastguard that a dog had fallen some 150ft over a cliff about three miles from the station they could have been forgiven for fearing the worse.

However, when they reached the scene they found the dog alive and on a ledge just 6ft above the water. Despite a heavy swell crew member Derek Brown was landed with some difficulty.Amazingly he discovered the dog, a crossbreed by the name of Molly, to be completely unharmed by her fall.However a nasty sea breaking against the cliff at high water spring tide presented problems in getting her aboard the lifeboat, which had been forced to lie-off.

Nothing daunted Derek tucked Molly firmly under his left arm and struck out for the inflatable, swimming the short distance until they could both be hauled aboard the lifeboat.

On returning to the station a distinctly wet and bedraggled Molly was re-united with her very relieved and grateful lady owner who had been taken there in a Coastguard Land- Rover..