Duo's charity plunge

Fred, of Orchard Way, Lancing, and Joanne plunged 12,000 feet with 248 other fund-raisers in Oxfordshire.

TWO residents from Lancing and Sompting skydived their way into the Guinness Book of Records last Saturday and helped raise more than 100,000 for charity.

Joanne Clark, of Garden Close, Sompting, and Fred Hill, of Orchard Way, Lancing, joined 248 other fund-raisers at RAF Weston-on-the-Green in Bicester, Oxfordshire, for a record-breaking tandem skydive from 12,000 feet.

The jump was in aid of the Cystic Fibrosis Trust, and both Joanne and Fred know young people with cystic fibrosis.

Joanne said: "It was lovely! It was definitely worth doing. The first few seconds were the worst, but it was the most amazing experience, one I would do again for charity."

She added she had raised more than 800 for the charity.

Fred said he was hoping to raise 2,700, as the company he works for, BOC Edwards, had pledged to match what he had raised himself.

He added: "It was smashing. It lived up to its expectation, for the thrill of it."

Another participant was Craig Phillips, who won the first Big Brother series.

Craig said: "It is so exciting for us to have broken a world record."