Dick Thurlow News Today

Jim Davidsons new documentary highlights a familys mission to raise enough money to name Caister Lifeboats new vessel.

The crew from Caister Lifeboat brought their new £250k tractor 25 miles inland to show it off at the Royal Norfolk Show.

Comedian Jim Davidson is aiming to raise over £20,000 for Caister Lifeboat with a live show, a classic telethon and a sea trip of more than 200…

Hundreds of people applauded Caister Lifeboat as crew members were brought onstage during a show held at Great Yarmouth's Britannia Pier.

"I love coming to Great Yarmouth - its one of the only places I can perform and not offend anyone."

A bid to name a new lifeboat after a caring community nurse is being launched under a £500,000 appeal. The new £1.6m Caister lifeboat will be among the...

After leaving school he worked as an apprentice with Lacons Brewery cleaning the pumps. He then went into drifting aboard the Rose Bay and joined the lifeboat crew under coxswain Jack Plummer, of Plummers dentists. A spell in the Merchant Navy saw him working mostly in UK waters before returning to Caister where he had a fish and chip shop in Tan Lane. People would queue round the block in those days, Mr Thurlow said, while he and his mates would cause havoc loosening the salt shaker tops and ...