A final spurt in helping The Lord Kitchener public house in Welling, Kent, to raise £12,000 for a D class inflatable lifeboat was aided by staff of Securicor Custodial Services, Charlton, who hauled a nine and a half ton prison van over a distance of four miles through Bexleyheath town centre raising in excess of £800.

Thirsty work, at the end of a hot and sticky day, was suitably rewarded when Barbara Hopkins, licensee of The Lord Kitchener, provided free liquid refreshments - an opportunity too good to be missed by the weary and dehydrated crew!.