Good morning. Last Sunday was a bright and scorching day in southern England; it was also the busiest day of the year so far for people arriving in small boats across the Channel, with 616 men, women and children making the crossing to the Kent coast, according to the Home Office.
The journey – often in poor-quality inflatable dinghies supplied by organised criminals – is always perilous, and frequently leads to tragedy. All of which makes the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) and its volunteers more important than ever.
