11th June 2021. Volunteers from the Gosport National Coastwatch Institution station are among those working for free to administer Covid-19 vaccinations in Portsmouth.

Retired anaesthetist and NCI Gosport Station Manager, Chris Aps, has been administering vaccines to patients once a week since March and has encouraged others to help.

Mr Apps, who has recently been elected to the charity’s Board of Trustees,  said: "The NCI is a big organisation that is dedicated to the preservation of life and helping with the vaccines is basically an extension of that”.

The photograph shows volunteers from NCI Gosport, from left, Gail Rendle, Dr Chris Aps and Capt David Burden at the Covid-19 Vaccination Centre at Lalys Pharmacy in Portsmouth (Picture: Chris Moorhouse)