Festive funds Dudley branch chairman, Karl Falk, gave up his Christmas Day and New Year's Eve to collect cash in memory of the lifeboat crew members who lost their lives in the Penlee disaster 18 years ago.

Karl (pictured above) was one of the people who took money to the victims' families in the wake of the disaster and helped collect £1,800 for the crews' widows and relatives.

He starts collecting a week before Christmas and finishes just before the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve. '...otherwise I would get into trouble with my family.' he joked..