A COUNCIL worker jumped in at the deep end when she promised to help boost the coffers of the mayor's charity crusade.
Last year, Christine Brown promised the then deputy Mayor of Sedgefield Borough, Councillor Jackie Piggott, that she would swim the English Channel to help raise money for his chosen charities during his year in office.
Ms Brown, from Ferryhill, has just completed the 22-mile distance but, rather than diving into the sea, she completed the challenge at Spennymoor Leisure Centre.
Instead of swimming from Dover to Calais, she swam the equivalent distance in the swimming pool - a total of 1,416 lengths.
The effort was the third time that Christine, who works in the canteen at the Sedgefield Borough Council offices at Green Lane, in Spennymoor, completed the feat in the aid of charity.
Work colleagues, family and friends have backed Christine all the way and she expects to raise more than £300 for the Mayor's charities - the North-East Air Ambulance and the South Cleveland Heart Fund.
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