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Two-hundred years ago, the Royal National Lifeboat Institution charity was created. The service's motto is "saving lives at sea", but its beginnings were very much on dry land - right in the heart of the City of London. Since then London has had a long history with the RNLI and its headquarters are still based here. So how did a meeting of MPs in the London Tavern in 1824 spawn one of the UK's more important charities? Â鶹Éç London's Victoria Hollins has the story. (Image credit: Getty Images)