The Latest Breaking News from RNLI

A 1909 built William Riley lifeboat will be hauled through the streets of Troon on Saturday.

Joan Scambler, who passed away in January 2021, remained grateful to the crew who rescued her after her canoe capsized in the North Sea when she was just 14 years old in 1965.

“Given the serious nature of the callout, the Irish Coast Guard Search and Rescue Helicopter team, Rescue 115, was tasked from their base at Shannon Airport"

Crews from the Dunbar RNLI station were scrambled on July 8 after receiving a call that a 38-year-old man had passed out on a rowing boat near the East Lothian coast.

The Dunbar RNLI were called out yesterday after the 38-year-old rower fell ill on a passage between Edinburgh and St Andrew's.

The boat initially alerted the UK Coastguard around 8:40am on Thursday, July 7, about a mile north of Dunbar harbour, with the town's two lifeboats being deployed to track down and help those involved.

Britain will be hotter than the Caribbean mid-July as temperatures are expected to reach a sweltering 35C in the next few weeks - bringing the longest running heatwave the UK has seen

The South Queensferry RNLI were busy over the weekend as they came to the aid of a broken down boat in the Firth of Forth, as well as racing to a distress call on Cramond Island, where two individuals were cut off from the tide

The RNLI crew were called out in the early hours of Monday morning when a rowing boat found itself in trouble at sea