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  • Lifeboat Launches to Fishing Boat

    Blackpool RNLI Lifeboat Bickerstaffe was launched after receiving a call that a fishing boat had broken down about a mile out to sea off the Pleasure Beach and was asking for immediate help.

    Just before 8am on Sunday 5 February, the lifeboat was launched, with a crew of three, to go to the aid of three men in their fishing vessel with a broken down engine...

  • West Kirby RNLI volunteers save two men from rising tide

    West Kirby RNLI volunteers saved the lives of two men who got disorientated in thick fog while walking a dog at Hilbre Island, Wirral, late yesterday afternoon (Monday 6 February).

    The men were lost for around three hours as the tide was coming in and when they were discovered by the RNLI crew, were up to their necks in water...

  • Record number of people rescued in 2011 by north of England RNLI lifeboat crews

    More people than ever before were rescued by volunteer Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) crews in the north of England last year. Figures issued today (7 February) show a total of 1,237 people were helped, an increase of 3% on the previous high recorded in 2003...

  • Lytham Promenade Orchestra push the boat out to help local lifeboats

    The chance for Youth Music’s Lytham Promenade Orchestra to Show Our Support for the RNLI SOS day – the Royal National Lifeboat Institution’s biggest fundraising day – on Friday 27 January 2012 was another great success.

    Members of the Lytham Promenade Orchestra, under the direction of their founder Martin Edward Gunson, again played a concert of popular and light classical music as their part of the SOS day national appeal...

  • Hartlepool RNLI go to the aid of two fishing vessels

    Hartlepool RNLI volunteer lifeboat crew went to the assistance of two fishing vessels off the coast of Hartlepool this morning (Friday 3 February).

    A 32 foot fishing boat radioed for help at 7...

  • Barratt staff splash out for Tynemouth RNLI lifeboats

    Staff at Barratt Homes North East launched a year-long wave of fundraising efforts for the RNLI lifeboat station at Tynemouth with a series of tea mornings.

    They served up home-baked cakes and specially-brewed Lifeboat Tea at their head office in Newcastle and at several housing developments around the region for RNLI SOS Day – the charity’s biggest annual fundraising day...

  • Hartlepool RNLI recieve SOS lifejacket appeal donation

    Heerema Hartlepool along with their client, Centrica Resourses Limited, have donated £3000 towards Hartlepool RNLI SOS Lifejacket Appeal.

    Gary Waugh, Mechanic with Hartlepool Lifeboat, received the cheque and said: ‘This is a wonderful donation and thanks to all at Heerema and Centrica for their efforts in raising this money for the RNLI SOS Lifejacket Appeal...

  • Memorial for victims of Morecambe Bay helicopter crash

    Volunteer RNLI crew members from Lytham and Fleetwood today joined family and friends of the seven men aboard the helicopter which ditched into the Irish sea on the night of 27 December 2006.

    The memorial sited on the promenade near Fleetwood Lifeboat Station will be a lasting tribute to the men who tragically lost their lives at Christmas 5 years ago...

  • Fleetwood RNLI Sent out SOS to the local people

    On the RNLI SOS Day, Friday 27 January, the crew and volunteers at Fleetwood lifeboat station and shop opened the doors to local folk of Fleetwood to show them around the station and lifeboats.

    A few weeks previously, the crew had put out ther own SOS asking the people of Fleetwood to help them fund the new lifejackets and appealed to them to help raise the £3,000 needed for the jackets...

  • RNLI co-ordinates National Beach Lifeguard Qualification for potential lifesavers in Sefton

    The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) is offering people in the north west an opportunity to qualify to work as lifesavers on Sefton’s beaches this summer.

    Anyone over the age of 16 who has a real interest in becoming a beach lifeguard can use this opportunity to gain an RLSS UK National Beach Lifeguard Qualification, which is a pre-requisite qualification when applying to the charity for a job as a seasonal lifeguard...

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  • Yellow Alert of Snow for Wales
    Yellow Alert of Snow for Wales : Blaenau Gwent, Bridgend, Caerphilly, Cardiff, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Merthyr Tydfil, Monmouthshire, Neath Port Talbot, Newport, Powys, Rhonnda Cynon Taff, Torfaen, Vale of Glamorgan & Wrexham valid from 1600 Thu 09 Feb to 2359 Fri 10 Feb
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  • Amber Warning of Ice for North East England
    Amber Warning of Ice for North East England : Northumberland & Durham valid from 0500 Thu 09 Feb to 1200 Thu 09 Feb
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