Great, great plunge for charity

2:41pm Wednesday 2nd January 2002

FREEFALL: Ken Pater hurtles to the ground in a tandem sky-dive which the great-grand-father took down 12,000 feet for charity. Mr Pater, 68, of Timber Close, Chislehurst, decided to do a tandem sky-dive earlier this month to raise money for mental health charity Mind. He said he was "thankful" to have both feet back on solid ground but also grateful to the amount of support he received, having raised more then £2,000. Mr Pater, who works part-time in an estate agents in Blackheath decided to raise money for the cause after discovering his older sister has dementia.

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