`Huge thrill´ as woman becomes lifeboat´s first female skipper
(World News UK)

A woman has taken charge of a lifeboat for the first time in her station´s 117-year history. Karla Thresher, 28, has passed her exams to skipper the Minehead D class lifeboat. The health care worker has already led her first emergency call to rescue two boys cut off by the tide off the north Somerset coast. Ms Thresher had been preparing for her final assessment when the lifeboat station received the call to rescue the boys three miles away at Blue...