THE sky was the limit for two colleagues at a construction firm who raised more than £700 for charity in a parachute jump.

Jackie McNeill, receptionist and telephonist, and Margaret McDermott, PA and office manager, at AWG Construction Services in Marlow, made the 12,000-ft tandem skydive last month from a Cessna aircraft at RAF Weston in Oxfordshire.

Between them they raised £720 for the National Asthma Campaign.

Margaret had completed two static line jumps from 2,000 feet while at school, but for Jackie it was a completely new experience.

"I was so nervous I forgot to open my arms at the right point and follow the instructions of the man I was jumping with. I couldn't think of what I'd been told in the briefing. All I was concerned about was getting to the bottom," said Jackie.

But it hasn't put her off. She booked another jump, just for fun.