Summer is fast approaching and the RNLI’s lifeguards are dusting down their rescue tubes, ready for another season on the UK’s most popular beaches.

This year, they’ve crossed the Irish Sea and will be patrolling in Northern Ireland for the first time. We are working with Coleraine Borough Council to establish an RNLI lifeguard service on Benone Strand, Downhill, Castlerock, Portstewart Strand, Portrush West Bay, Portrush East Strand and Whiterocks.

In another first, RNLI lifeguards will also provide safety cover on three beaches in Jersey: St Ouen's Bay, St Brelade and Plémont Gréve de Lecq.

Our lifeguards will also be on duty on all the usual beaches in Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Norfolk, Lincolnshire, Yorkshire, Tyne and Wear, Merseyside, Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire, Carmarthenshire, Swansea and Neath Port Talbot. Find your nearest RNLI lifeguarded beach on rnli.org.uk.