Thank you so much for your comments on our new magazine – take a look at page 38 for a selection. Overall, the changes have gone down well. We’ll continue to work hard to bring you the best rescue stories, news, features and interviews that we can.

Most comments seem to welcome the new size. I’m sure you appreciate that it has saved on costs – as has replacing Compass with a community news section (page 6). That follows feedback stating we were sending out too much paper.

We have taken the advertising away, as a result of reader feedback, creating more editorial pages overall. Advertising is something we’ll review again in the future. In the meantime we’ll include promotions for RNLI products and campaigns, which all raise lifesaving funds. While many of you are pleased that we are featuring more words from those rescued – and how they feel – a few of you have asked for more technical information. So we will look for more opportunities to do that in future rescue stories.

The St Agnes rescue story that appears on our cover (full story on page 12) sums up how far our lifesavers are prepared to go to rescue people – and our article on page 24 shows how we are determined to make your kind donations go further. So I wish you a very Happy New Year, and hope you feel inspired by what you read in these pages: your support will help to save more lives at sea in 2015 and beyond.