A PENSIONER is to mark her 80th birthday with a charity skydive.

Mavis Deeney, a retired secretary from Blackburn, may have left it, but she is determined to fulfil one of her life-long ambitions while also fundraising for villagers in Cambodia.

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The committee member of Action4Cambodia, will be strapped to an instructor for the jump at Cockerham Sands near Lancaster on April 18.

“I know there’s a lady who’s just done it on her 100th birthday, so I’m not that special really,” said Mrs Deeney, who lives at Deganwy Avenue with husband Seamus.

“It’s something I’ve always wanted to do before I’m too old, and I’ll be strapped to a hunky young man coming down. The only thing that’s worrying me a bit is going up in the small plane.”

The charity committee supports education and health programmes to enable Cambodian children to attend school instead of working in the rice fields.

It commissioned a new school in Champak Sa and other good work includes rebuilding a home for a family of nine whose house was destroyed in storms, providing kit for sports teams and stocking mobile libraries.