As a lot of you already know I am a long standing supporter of the RNLI or Royal National Lifeboat Institution. This all started when I was a girl and used to watch Blue Peter and support their annual appeals. One year they asked for used postage stamps to sell in order to buy inshore lifeboats for the RNLI. As with all of their appeals they did reports about the RNLI and I remember, even at that young age, being in awe of people who were prepared to stop what they were doing and risk their lives to save others AND as volunteers! Whilst in the Midlands I joined the local branch although I was ...
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