101-year-old breaks skydiving world record

A D-Day veteran, aged 101 years and 38 days, has become the oldest man in the world to complete a skydive.

Bryson William Verdun Hayes, known as Verdun, took to the skies with 10 members of his family, at Honiton in Devon.

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