Lyme Regis RNLI announce its a boy! (Image: Lyme Regis RNLI)
Lyme Regis lifeboat crew member Seb Cope decided on a novel way to reveal the sex of the baby he and his fiancee are expecting in a few months' time.
He held an American-style gender reveal event, but with a difference. Seb got special permission to reveal the gender of the baby on Sunday (March 24) to stage the event on the town’s RNLI lifeboat.
While he was aboard the lifeboat his fiancee Abbie Cook was on the north wall of the Cobb harbour watching with crowds as blue flares signalled that the couple are expecting a boy.
Seb said: “It was simply a fun way to announce a big event in our lives and we are both absolutely delighted.”
Appropriately, Abbie happens to be the owner of the Baby Boutique in Lyme Regis.
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