5:50pm Friday 20th November 2009
By Sam McGregor
CHARITY worker Peter Corcoran got an amazing view of Oxfordshire from 12,500ft up.
Mr Corcoran, 45, who has had two kidney transplants and is blind in one eye, achieved a lifetime ambition to do a parachute jump.
The feat helped raise £800 for the Oxford transplant unit that changed his life.
About 30 friends and family members turned out at Weston-on-the-Green airfield to watch Mr Corcoran, of Purslane Drive, Bicester, complete a tandem skydive.
Mr Corcoran said: “It was brilliant. I didn’t feel scared until they opened the door at 12,500 ft – two-and-a-half miles up.
“I felt I could see the whole of Oxfordshire – even with my sight problems. It was exhilarating.”
Mr Corcoran, who volunteers at the British Heart Foundation shop in Bicester and is training to be a mentor with Smart, the Substance Misuse and Referral Team, added: “I want to say a big thank you to everyone who supported me.”
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