Dick Beddows News Today

Saturday 9 March marked forty years of volunteering for St Bees RNLI Helms Alastair Graham and Ian Wrigley.

The annual Boxing Day Tractor Trundle in West Cumbria saw a great turnout this year, with £460 raised for a St Bees Royal National Lifeboat…

Lifeboat volunteers had a busy set of days including callouts that involved missing people and a rescue mission.

Lifeboat volunteers had a busy set of days including callouts that involved missing people and a rescue mission.

A West Cumbrian lifeboat team is celebrating 60 years of lifesaving efforts.

Volunteers of St Bees RNLI were called out after reports of windsurfers in distress.

Lifeboat volunteers were called out into treacherous waters.

St Bees RNLI was called to help with a distressed person on Drigg beach.

Rescue volunteers had their training interrupted when called to an incident last week.

Seven people cut off by rising tide in Ravenglass People are urged to check the tide times before venturing out along the coast. St Bees RNLI and Whitehaven and Millom Coastguard teams were called out yesterday after reports that seven people had been cut off by the rising tide at Ravenglass. RNLI volunteers were training in Whitehaven harbour when they received the call from Belfast Coastguard at around 1.35pm. As the volunteers approached the estuary, they were stood down as the casualti...