Guest speakersVanessa Glover attended the event on behalf of the RNLI and delivered an emotional speech about her own personal reason to thank the organisation.She said: "I was spectacularly rescued by the RNLI from the flooded River Taw in Umberleigh, two days before Christmas in 2012. "I was swept away in floodwater 4.5m deep at a speed of 17mph travelling 75m from our truck, leaving my husband clinging to its bonnet and our seven-year-old son to its roof. "Having entered the...
