LIFESAVING WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS Newquay, Cornwall, will host the Rescue 2010 Lifesaving World Championships after a successful bid by Surf Life Saving Great Britain (SLSGB).

More than 5,000 competitors from 55 countries will take part in the event, which will promote water safety and lifesaving skills – and help the RNLI.

Volunteer lifeguards are essential to the RNLI’s plan to double lifeguard operations in the next 5 years. The charity’s partnership with SLSGB will develop just such a strong volunteering base, and Rescue 2010 will give this ethos extra momentum.

More than 120 individual and team titles will be contested, in the surf and in the pool, in June and July 2010. .