I TAKE my hat off to the Lancashire Evening Telegraph - it must have wings.

I had a phone call from someone in Leeds who had read your report (LET, March 26) of my efforts to swim 2,000 lengths of a pool by the year 2000 for the Imperial Cancer Research Fund's Sharron Davies Challenge.

The caller sent me a Cancer Research T-shirt and offered anything else I needed to publicise my effort, which is coming on a treat.

I am glad I ate tripe at an early age - it helps me slide through the water, plus Holland's pies, which give me strength to go with my own willpower.

Up to date, I have raised £400 in sponsorship, now I have only some 810 lengths to do to reach my target.

ADA GIBSON (aged 83), Grange Street, Clayton-le-Moors.

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