Lifeboat crews were called to rescue a man stranded on an inflatable mattress off the coast of Edinburgh. Queensferry RNLI Lifeboat was alerted to the emergency east of Cramond Island in the Firth of ...

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An area of south-west Scotland has been left without a dedicated lifeboat service due to the introduction of new rules about rescue boats. The Fleet Bay Inshore Rescue service has attended hundreds of ...

The inshore trustees have met members of HM Coastguard to discuss the requirements for the new boat An area of south-west Scotland has been left without a dedicated lifeboat service due to the ...

Lifeboat crews have battled gale force conditions to rescue a yacht drifting and in danger of being swamped by waves off south west Scotland. The 40ft (12m) vessel - with one person on board - ...

Volunteers at Newcastle RNLI have bid a sad farewell to the last operational Mersey class lifeboat in the charity’s fleet. The historic moment came at 12.20pm — the number on the side of the Leonard ...

OpenJDK project teams will focus work on features such as value types, code reflection, AOT compilation, and structured concurrency in the coming year. Oracle’s Java team in 2026 will work toward ...

An RNLI crew member was called into action to help a stranded seal spotted by a colleague. The grey seal was found lying on the slipway for the Fleetwood to Knott-End Ferry in Lancashire on Saturday ...

“Do you really think all lives are worth saving?” Inspired partly by his worn and tattered childhood Ladybird book,The Life-Boat Men, Dominic Gregory plucked up the courage to volunteer at his local ...

Java Development Kit (JDK) 26, a planned update to standard Java due March 17, 2026, has reached the initial release candidate (RC) stage. The RC is open for critical bug fixes, with the feature set ...