A man will celebrate his 21st birthday in style when he jumps from a plane in aid of charity.
Dean Watts (pictured left), from Redcar, will perform the sky dive in Sunderland on Thursday to raise money for the Ian Bowen Memorial Fund, a regional branch of Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY).
The Redcar teenager died from the rare Wolff Parkinson-White syndrome while on a night out with friends in October 1996. He was 19.
His 54-year-old mother, Maralyn, and husband, Kenny, 55, set up the fund in the hope they could save other families going through their heartache.