AN RNLI volunteer from Abersoch will be flying the flag for Wales when a brand new television series about the charity hits the screens.

Elissa Thursfield, 28, will feature in the show called Saving Lives at Sea, which is set to air soon on BBC One and is all about the Royal National Lifeboat Institution’s volunteer lifeboat crew.

Filmed over the course of several months, the series portrays what life is like for those volunteers who must be ready at any time of day or night to help someone in trouble at sea or on the River Thames.

Elissa has been a volunteer lifeboat crew member with Abersoch RNLI for 10 years and is in training to become a helmsperson.

She is also a member of the RNLI’s Flood Rescue Team and was selected to be involved in the series after her involvement in high-profile rescues during the team’s deployment to the Cumbria floods in December caught the attention of producers.

Since then Elissa has been filmed at Abersoch lifeboat station with fellow volunteer crew, in St Asaph with fellow Flood Rescue team members, at work in Rhyl, at home with her fiancé and Abersoch RNLI Senior Helm David Wyn Williams and for an interview at the Rhyl Little Theatre.

Saving Lives at Sea will be shown on BBC One later this spring.

See the full story in this week’s Arfon/Dwyfor edition of the Cambrian News