A SPONSORED swim by pupils of Gawthorpe High School, in Padiham, netted £790 for charity.

Year 7 students got in the swim at the Thompson Centre in aid of the Olympic Swimming Appeal and raised £550 for that cause and £240 for the Dunblane appeal.

It is the greatest ever amount of money ever raised for charity by Gawthorpe pupils in a single event.

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