The Walter and Elizabeth Groombridge award is made each year for the most meritorious service in an Atlantic B class lifeboat. The RNLI Trustee Committee met on 23 July and agreed that the 2007 award should be made to Flamborough Helmsman Darren Pollard for his and his crew’s daring rescue of a swimmer on 22 August last year. (See report in the Summer 2008 issue of the Lifeboat.)