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Super granny, Mabel Swift

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Mabel Swift MBE, is 83 and a widow from Bridlington, East Yorkshire.

She's completed parachute jumps, flown a plane and abseiled the towers of the Humber Bridge for charity. Currently she's a theme park ride test pilot and enjoys being catapulted around the tracks of new ride, Absolutely Insane at over 100 miles per hour!

Brought up on a farm clambering up corn stacks, Mabel's next charity jump, for the Red Cross is on May 8th or 9th.

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