A lifeboat crew and coastguard personnel have been presented with a Hero to Animals award from Peta after rescuing a dog from the sea. North Berwick RNLI and coastguard teams saved the Weimaraner, called Sparkle, after she slipped four metres off a harbour wall at Seacliff beach in East Lothian in February. Sparkle plunged into the cold water, prompting her 73-year-old owner, David Hall, to enter the sea to help. Mr Hall told the RNLI that the waves at the harbour entrance were "crashing" as the swell rose and fell. He said: “I know all the rules about not going after an animal, but those rules don’t count… So [I] took my glasses off, my jacket off, [and] I went down the ladder.” Mr Hall was in the water up to his waist holding onto the ladder and onto Sparkle’s collar until help arrived. During the incident, a second member of the public went into the water to help.…