'I don't do fear': woman, 102, breaks record as oldest UK skydiver

A 102-year-old military veteran who has become Britain's oldest skydiver says she "doesn't do fear" and is urging people in their 80s and 90s to "not to give up anything".

- Hannah Al-Othman

Manette Baillie, from Benhall Green in Suffolk, jumped out of a plane over Beccles yesterday to mark her birthday and raise money for three charities which she described as "very dear to my heart".

Baillie, who served with the Women's Royal Naval Service (Wrens) in Egypt during the second world war, said before the jump: "You must always look for something new. I was once married to a paratrooper but have never done it myself."

Baillie has raised more than £10,000 of her £30,000 fundraising target for the East Anglian air ambulance, Motor Neurone Disease Association and her local Benhall and Sternfield Ex-Servicemen's and Village Club, which she says "is the heart and soul of our lovely community and is in need of considerable refurbishment".