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Royal Mail worker Rob Braddock was safely delivered to ground level from a height of 15,000ft
NSPIRED by his father, a Dronfield man took to the skies to raise £563 for St Luke’s Hospice. Royal Mail HR adviser Rob Braddock, of Green Lane, recently completed a tandem sky-dive at Brigg Airfield, Humberside, which included more than 5,000ft in freefall. “I lost my father to cancer in 1999 and, although he was never a St Luke’s patient, we do know about the great work they are doing for the people of Sheffield,” said Rob, who lives with his partner Joanna and sons Wayne and Charlie.
“I think the hospice is a wonderful cause and I wanted to raise as much money as possible on the day. “It was amazing, but over very quickly. I was told it was a 10,000ft sky-dive, but a little bonus on the day was that we got up to 15,000ft, so I got to freefall for longer, which was fantastic.”
Group’s big bash
ONGRATULATIONS go to Dronfield Woodhouse’s Chris Bradford (above) who completed the London Marathon in an impressive four hours and nine minutes, raising more than £3,000 for the Bobby Moore Bowel Cancer Fund. A former pupil at both St Andrew’s Primary and Dronfield Henry Fanshawe Secondary School, Chris, of Morley Close, was originally aiming to raise £2,000 in memory of his dad who died of bowel cancer last year, but well exceeded his target.
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IXTY-FIVE past and present members of the Dronfield Over 21 Group banded together to celebrate the club’s 50th anniversary.
Kicking off a weekend of events with a Celebration Dinner at the DoubleTree Hotel, three reverends from Dronfield Parish Church. where the club is based, were also present, including the reverend who started it all.
“It went absolutely brilliantly,” said Chair Pat Walker, of Snape Hill Lane, who was a founding member. “The toast was proposed by Ken Ward, who started it all. People had become too old for the Youth Club and had to move on, so we founded another group.
“Fifty years on, we still haven’t found another name, so it’s still the Over 21 Group.”
The celebrations continued with a Sunday Service at the church, which was also well attended. Look out for the final event in October, when members have the chance to take part in a music workshop and remember the pantomimes by singing songs from Joseph and other Andrew LLoyd Webber hits.
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