A TEAM of staff from Harpers Home Mix in Holsworthy are jumping for joy after raising an amazing £2,853 for Cancer Research UK from a parachute jump they took part in back in the summer.

The plucky eight —Sharon Frankham, Vicky Martin, Stacey Hillier, Laura Tribble, Pete Davis, Leon Owen, Hayley Willis and Matt Cook — ascended 15,000 feet before leaping from the plane above the fields at Dunkerswell.

After perfect landings Sharon Frankham, the organiser, said: "We were all very nervous but kept each other going and in the end it was great fun and we knew that we were jumping to raise funds for a very worthy cause, in my own case I was jumping for my dad John who sadly passed away from prostate cancer."

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