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3 Oct 2014 BBC Homepage BBC Radio
Radio 4 Home Truths Listen Again About John Peel Help Feedback Like this page? Mail it to a friend		Super granny, Mabel Swift Super Granny Listen to the item 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. Discuss this story on the Home Truths message board Tell us your experiences... Useful Links More pictures of Mabel in action The BBC is not responsible for the content of external websites.

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