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No more wet dog smell

Britain’s only lifeguard dog has been sacked. Bilbo, who has helped save three lives, has been relieved of his duties by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.

According to the Daily Mirror, an RNLI spokesman said: “We can’t employ a dog as a guard. They are banned from the beach.”

Bilbo, a 14-stone Newfoundland, would have swimmers in distress by swimming around struggling bathers and when they grabbed the float fixed to his harness he paddled to safety.

Steve Jamieson, the head lifeguard and Bilbo’s owner, said he was upset at the decision: “It’s a scandal, an absolute disgrace. Bilbo has had fantastic support. “He’s had 6,500 hits on his website, been on TV and I’ve written a book about him.”

The RNLI, which now runs the life-saving operation on the beach in Sennen, near Land’s End in Cornwall added: “He would fail the resuscitation test.”

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This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .