BARMOUTH RNLI staff were buoyed by a visit from the charity’s top brass earlier this month.

On Wednesday, 6 April, the Coastal Review team from RNLI headquarters at Poole visited the station.

A review of all the RNLI lifeboat stations takes place every five years and this week the team visited stations on the west coast of Wales from Fishguard to Porthdinllaen.

The purpose of the review is to see how stations are working in each area, and to decide if any changes might be needed to ensure that the RNLI continues to deliver lifesaving around the coast in the most effective, safe and viable manner.

The team of volunteers and professionals was headed by Vice Admiral Sir Timothy Laurence, chairman of the RNLI Operations Committee together with representatives of operations, engineering and asset management and community life-saving.

See the full story in this week’s Meirionnydd edition of the Cambrian News