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The RNLI rescue an average of 22 people every day of the year from around our coasts and on the River Thames.
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Support our river heroes

05/09/201329/05/2015Mort SmithComment(0)

I know it’s a bit outside our area but there’s an event happening this weekend that I just had to draw to readers’ attention – the Teddington River Festival and RNLI Station Open Day.

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Day RNLI heroes rescued us at sea

18/10/201219/12/2012Mort SmithComment(0)

The special reason I have for supporting the fourth emergency service

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For those in peril…

03/04/201103/12/2012Mort SmithComment(0)

To anyone who spends time messing about in boats of all kinds, the dangers inherent in a life on the water are always there in the background.

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Do the decent thing

23/01/201102/12/2012Mort SmithComment(0)

I get really angry with people who drive their cars on the road without paying the annual road fund licence. They are the kind of people who obviously think they’re more important than the rest of us and that the law doesn’t apply to them.

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To contact Mort, email him at mortsmith32@gmail.com or call him on 01787 226974. He’s always pleased to hear from old friends who provided such a wealth of information and great stories for Riverwatch.

These columns appeared in the Surrey Herald.

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