Tides warning as visitors head to coast for holidays

The RNLI is urging visitors to the south Wales coast to check tide times - as we all having a means of calling for help - as large spring tides arrive during the May half-term.

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The reminder from the lifesaving charity comes after a rescue earlier this month, when a volunteer lifeboat crew from Porthcawl RNLI rescued two people who had become cut-off by the incoming tide beneath the cliffs, somewhere between Ogmore and Southerndown on the Vale of Glamorgan coastline.

It was on the afternoon of Sunday, May 11, at 2.27pm, when the lifeboat crew were paged after a 999 call to HM Coastguard.

Both Porthcawl RNLI lifeboats - the Atlantic 85, Rose of the Shires, and D class lifeboat, Hugo Missen - were launched and raced to the location.