The guests of honour at the annual RNLI coffee morning in Mayfield, East Sussex on 2 December 1995 were Keith Stevens, son of the stationmaster at Mayfield (in the days when they had a railway!) and now a member of the crew of the Selsey lifeboat, and Muffie, an eleven week old Cavalier King Charles spaniel.

Muffie's appealing looks and guessthe- weight competition (no doubt a great excuse to pick her up!) helped raise a tot.il of some £500..