A LIFEBOAT station has received more than £300 thanks to a charity golf event.

Cleveland Golf Club's captain Keith Cooper chose to donate the funds to Redcar RNLI following his Captain's Day event in the town last month.

Mr Cooper said: "I've always had an interest in the work of the RNLI volunteers.

"I've been a fisherman all my life, and I had my own fishing boat for many years. My father had a boat before me."

Peter Haslett, lifeboat treasurer at Redcar RNLI, said: "We'd like to thank all the golfers at Cleveland Golf Club for supporting our volunteer crews.

"One or two of the crew play golf themselves, but sometimes they don't get the chance to because they're too busy manning the lifeboats."

The golf course was opened in 1887, the same year that the old lifeboat house on the Esplanade in Redcar was built.