FIVE coastguards from the Watchet station have received the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Medal in recognition of completing five years’ work with the emergency services.

Several of the Watchet team have been with the coastguard service long enough that it was their third Jubilee medal.

The photograph shows (left to right): station officer Mike Champion, deputy station officer Richard Nicholas, Dave Booker, and Simon Bale. Also eligible for medal but unable to attend the presentation evening was Ian Human.