Daily Express Thursday, August 8, 2019 3DX1STBy Nathan SandhuBy News Reporterwhen you are well clear of the
aircraft the parachute opens and
you go back up.”
Adeline made a tandem jump
strapped to an instructor almost
three miles up over Cark Airfield,
a former RAF base near Grange-
over-Sands, Cumbria.
She was hoping to raise at least
£1,000 to help lifeboats – a cause
dear to her heart because her
father-in-law’s Merchant Navy
ship was torpedoed in the war.
Asked why she chose a skydive
as her challenge, she laughed:
“It’s just something to do – better
than watching paint dry.”
When she is not jumping out of
planes Adeline, who lives at
Abbeyfield Cove House inSilverdale, takes part in many
activities on offer to residents
including yoga, music sessions,
flower arranging and knitting for a
women’s hospital in Ethiopia.
Her jump was watched by
Abbeyfield Cove House manager
Jodie Evans and Ann Epps from
the local RNLI branch.
Jodie said: “We knew Adeline
was a bit of a daredevil and this is
a tremendous achievement.
“The slideshow of photos has
also been a real highlight for our
other residents to watch.”
RNLI spokesman Chris Clouter
added: “We are so lucky to have
supporters like Adeline.”
By last night Adeline had raised
around £600. You can donate at
justgiving.com/fundraising/
adeline-frankenChute to thrill...
skydiver tastes
high life aged 94
A PENSIONER who set a record
as Britain’s oldest female skydiver
at 94 joked about her daredevil
exploit: “It’s better than watching
paint dry!”
Fearless Adeline Franken
proved age is no barrier after
braving a 15,000ft parachute jump
to raise money for the Royal
National Lifeboat Institution.
It’s not even the first time the
adrenaline junkie has been
skydiving – she leaped from a
plane at 14,000ft in 2012.
This time Adeline fell through
the sky for just under a minute, at
120mph, before her chute opened
and she floated gracefully down.
And she said modestly: “There
is nothing to it really, you just
move towards the edge and kind
of flop out. You start to fall, thenAdeline and her instructor
plunging through the air at
120mph before chute opens All set to ‘kind of flop out’ of the aircraft nearly three miles upSafely down to earth again after jump to raise £1,000 for RNLINo new 1p or 2p coins were neededPenny drops...no coins are minted
NO 1p or 2p coins were produced
last year by the Royal Mint.
For the first time since 1972, no
1p coins were struck for circulation
- and for the first time since 1984,
no 2p coins were produced
The Treasury asks the Mint to
issue amounts and denominations
of coins to meet the needs of the
economy.
Some years there is already
enough of a certain coin in circula-
tion and no need for more.
There are currently about 10.
billion 1ps and 6.3 billion 2ps
weighing down wallets, shop tills,
jam jars and piggy banks across
the UK.
The Treasury also said no £2 coins
were produced in 2018 because, at
an estimated 494 million, there
were already sufficient numbers
in circulation.
A spokesman said: “We didn’t
ask the Mint to issue any £2 or
1p/2p coins this past year because
there are already enough.
“Our coins are of the highest
quality and the amount we ask the
Royal Mint to produce every yeardepends on demand from banks
and post offices.”
Copper coins were previously
feared to be under threat when a
consultation was launched about
the mix of cash in circulation.
But in May the Government
emphasised there would be no
changes and said all denominations- from the penny to the £50 note –
would stay in circulation.
Cash use has fallen sharply in
recent years as the popularity of
contactless payments has surged.
Reduced demand for coins means
banks may not need to order as
many new ones as they have done
in the past.
But many people still rely on cash
for their day-to-day spending.
About 2.2 million people are esti-
mated to be almost entirely reliant
on cash. The elderly, vulnerable and
people in rural communities are
likely to be hardest hit by any
decline in availability.
Inquiries continue into how to
ensure access to their money as
bank branches close and cash
machines disappear.OPINION: PAGE 12Pictures: SWNS / GETTY