A North-East lifeboat crew appears this month on a calendar sent to solicitors' offices across the country.

The lifeboatmen from Redcar are one of 12 crews featuring in the Royal National Lifeboat Institution's (RNLI) legacy calendar.

David Brann, fundraising and marketing director at the RNLI, said: "It increases awareness about the importance of legacies to the RNLI, particularly as six out of ten launches are only possible thanks to legacy income."

The picture shows helmsmen Mark Greaves and Mark Reeves, and crew members Derek Robinson, Tony Wheater and Tony Wild, and recognises the crew's achievement in rescuing a man stranded at the base of cliffs in May, 1999.