AN EIGHT-year-old New Quay schoolboy had a busy end to his summer holidays by helping save three members of the public from the rocks near the lifeboat station in New Quay and then raising the alarm when two boys were stranded in the same area a few days later.

Steffan Williams carried out his first rescue on 29 August when he spotted people standing on the rocks trying to reach the beach.

He went over on his kayak and then used his red dingy to transport them safely to the beach.

The second rescue early in the evening of Friday, 1 September, was more serious as the tide was higher and the boys were whistling for help.

Steffan heard them and went over on his kayak to ask if they were okay.

They said they were stuck, cold and hungry and that the battery had died on their mobile phone.

Remembering the coatguard’s advice to call for help rather than put yourself in danger, Steffan returned to the beach and raised the alarm. The Coastguard and New Quay inshore lifeboat attended the scene and both boys were taken to safety.

Steffan, who attends Ysgol T Llew Jones, is a member of the Crannog Surf Life Saving Club and his father, Huw, is on the lifeboat crew.

Steffan is passionate about lifeboats and the RNLI so earlier this summer he raised over £100 for the charity.

He also voiced his concerns about the RNLI’s recent announcement to not replace the all-weather lifeboat in New Quay, and asked people to sign the online petition, set up to save the service off the Ceredigion coast.

Read the full story in this week’s South Ceredigion editions of the Cambrian News