Lifeboat Manager Fears Cuts to Helicopter Cover

Express & Echo (Exeter, UK) › February 27, 2010

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PLANS to scale back emergency helicopter rescue cover in the county have been criticised by an East Devon lifeboat manager.

Alan Phillips, operations manager for Sidmouth Lifeboat Station, has said he thinks Government plans to scale back night cover at North Devon's RMB Chivenor could badly affect the area.

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Lifeboat Manager Fears Cuts to Helicopter Cover

He said cover at night, if the proposals are passed, would mean rescue helicopters having to come from Cornwall's...

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