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SACKED: Volunteers axed over X-rated workplace mug

SACKED: Volunteers axed over X-rated workplace mug

Two Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) volunteers have lost their appeal to be reinstated to their roles at Whitby station after a row over a sexually explicit mug.

The charity said that after a "fair and robust investigation and appeal process," the pair will not return to the North Yorkshire base.

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