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A view across Wigtown Bay in the south of Scotland with grass and trees in the foreground and low water in the distance

Coastguard search for missing man off Solway Coast

Rescue teams are looking for the 72-year-old who was sailing a dinghy in the area on Tuesday.

Skegness RNLI's Shannon class all-weather lifeboat - the Joel and April Grunnill - is pictured coming ashore at Skegness beach on an early summer's evening.

RNLI appeals for volunteer crew members

The charity is holding an open evening for people who are interested to find out more.

Mud with puddles on the surface with three RNLI crew members crouched together on the mud balanced on a stretcher to the right and a paddleboard to the left.

Mud-trapped boy and girl rescued from harbour

The cold and exhausted pair were found stuck in mud near Christchurch Harbour Hotel.

Close up image of a cluster of water hemlock. I has a white flower in bunches of a 20 buds atop green stems.

Foragers rescued from island after eating hemlock

The experienced foragers called for help and were found for in an anxious state on Sully Island.

Six men and one woman are sitting while a woman stands, all looking forward. They are all curling their left hands in the C letter BSL sign. Half of them are wearing RNLI lifeguard uniforms and the others The Deaf Academy uniforms. All of them are wearing halyards. Behind them is a set of doors.

Deaf students teach lifeguards sign language

Students from the Deaf Academy in Exmouth teach RNLI lifeguards phrases in British Sign Language.

A large black tent which has been set up on a seafront.

Travelling artwork to honour 200 years of the RNLI

The travelling film is finishing its tour in Gravesend in June after starting in Whitstable.

An RNLI flag with the word lifeboats next to it in blue, on an orange background.

Last lifeboat launch during WW2 was in Devon

The RNLI is reflecting on the role it played during World War Two.

Two police cars with lights flashing parked behind a number of other vehicles with water and lights seen in the distance - it is dark.

Teenage girls cut off by tide rescued by lifeboat crew

Coastguards and the RNLI were called to rescue the stricken pair off the Isle of Wight.

Derek Adams with short white hair and beard, wearing a dark green waterproof coat and yellow hi-vis jacket. He is waving with his right hand. Behind him is the orange RNLI Charles Lidbury lifeboat, moored alongside a landing stage with white railings. The sea is visible in the background.

Walker, 82, completes 4,500-mile RNLI station trek

Derek Adams has visited all 238 RNLI stations in England, Scotland and Wales in three years.