A BLACKBURN council worker is set to reach new heights to prove she's a record breaker.

Sarah McEwen will be flying high over the weekend as part of a 60-strong team of British women attempting to break a skydiving record.

She will join fellow female members of the BritChicks in Nottingham as they free fall for a minute from 14,000 feet holding on to each others' wrists and ankles before releasing their parachutes for the descent to earth.

Sarah, 35, from Chorley, has been skydiving since 1989 and has done parachute jumps from more than 550 planes.

During the day she works for Blackburn with Darwen Council's Access to Progress team which helps provides support services for children with special needs.

But between Friday and Sunday this weekend her focus will be firmly on breaking the British record set in 2002 when 50 women successfully completed the jump.

Now, if wind speeds stay below 25mph and the rain and clouds stay away, her name could be heading for the record books.

She said: "Sky diving was just something I fancied trying, but you do one jump and get hooked.

"This will be a formation with our bellies to the earth, linked by wrists and ankles. We have practised it by mapping it out on the ground and in smaller groups.

"But the dangerous part is having so many jumpers in the sky at once and finding enough space to move away and open your chute.

"To be the one to break the formation would be awful but I am in the main anchor circle so that's one less thing to worry about."

The women will attempt to form a circular pattern in the middle and then linear formation from the centre.