Corporal Justin Morgan Credit: Royal Naval Air Station Culdrose
A daring rescue by a member of the RNAS Culdrose Search and Rescue team has been recognised at this year's Millie Awards. Corporal Justin Morgan was named Britain's Most Outstanding Sailor last night.
Corporal Justin Morgan inside helicopter Credit: Royal Naval Air Station Culdrose
He braved 50-foot waves and gale-force winds to rescue a man who had fallen from his yacht in August.
Corporal Morgan was handed his award by Hollywood actors Amanda Seyfried and Eddie Redmayne. The event in London is backed by a national newspaper.
Corporal Justin Morgan Credit: Royal Naval Air Station Culdrose
Staff at a Royal Navy airbase are being forced to wear gloves - after an invasion of poisonous SPIDERS. Hundreds of noble false widow spiders - about the size of a 50p piece - have been spotted at Royal Naval Air Station Culdrose Culdrose in Cornwall.
Workers at one factory on the site are now wearing latex gloves to stop them getting bitten by the arachnids - which have bee-like stings.
Two men have been rescued in waters near Padstow after their yacht capsized. They have been taken to the Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro.
The 30ft vessel got into trouble at around 6.20pm last night. It was about half-a-mile off Trevose Head.
One man in his 20s was rescued from the water by a helicopter from RNAS Culdrose. The other man, in his 80s, managed to climb back on board the vessel, but was then airlifted to safety.
Our Defence Correspondent John Andrews reports from Helston where sailors from the Royal Naval Air Station at Culdrose were on parade today, exercising their freedom of the town.
A Lieutenant from RNAS Culdrose has been selected to take part in more than 800 victory ceremonies at this summer's Olympic Games. Alexandra Kelley will raise the national flags of medal winners duing the anthems.
