A lifeboatman and his young son held a symbolic protest against the UK’s Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) withdrawing “vital” equipment from a station in west Wales.

During the London Boat Show, Huw Williams and his son Steffan walked barefoot to the RNLI stand in protest over the “Drowning Gap” they say will be created in Cardigan Bay when an all-weather lifeboat at New Quay is taken away to cut costs.