VOLUNTEERS at a west Dorset RNLI shop are celebrating smashing a record year of sales.

Lyme Regis RNLI’s lifeboat shop saw off competition from 172 other outlets to be declared ‘top of the shops’ sales within ‘traditional outlets’ throughout 2022.

The shop achieved £111,000 of profit in the past 12 months - beating the previous record in 2013 - and making the harbourside store the most successful in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

Treasurer Brian Cursley told a meeting of the Lyme Regis Lifeboat Supporters that the total raised for the charity in Lyme Regis during last year including the shop, lifeboat week and other donations was £207,000.

Volunteer manager of the shop, Krys Lavery said: “These results are a massive tribute to all our fantastic volunteers, those who give their time in the shop, those who organise lifeboat week, the lifeboat crew, of course, and all our generous supporters in the town and visitors from far and wide.”