REGULARS to the Beckfields pub in Ingleby Barwick have proved themselves as generous as the managers are brave.

General manager Dave McCann and assistant manager Sue Hewitson raised £3,000 for the Marie Curie cancer charity by taking part in a sponsored parachute jump.

They were joined in the jump by Mr McCann's brothers, Paddy and Ewan, and his father, Mick.

Mr McCann said: "Our gran was in a Marie Curie centre last year and the nurses there were absolutely amazing. We said back then that we had to do something to help.

"We saw the parachute jumps on a website and, to tell the truth, we were a bit drunk at the time.

"But we said we'd do it, so there was no going back on it then.

"The experience was out of this world, but there was a lot of anticipation.

"It was quite nerve racking, especially since we'd had the regulars winding us up in the weeks beforehand."