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SCUBA DIVERS' CHANNEL CROSSING RAISES £50,000...

A team of scuba divers have made it into the record books after becoming the first people to swim across the English Channel from Britain to France underwater.

The team of six men and one woman took to the sea at Dover on Saturday (5 August) at 6.10am and reached Cap Gris Nez in north-eastern France  just over 12 hours later.

Swimming about four metres below the surface, the seven spent between 30 and 90 minutes underwater each before their compressed air tanks ran out and they handed over the baton, a surface marker buoy, to another team member.

The team who had trained for two years raised £50,000 for the Orchid Cancer Appeal.

The charity funds research into the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of testicular, prostate and penile cancer.

The relay team members were, organiser Colin Osbourne, Lieutenant John Bainbridge and Lieutenant Commander Mike Leaney from the Royal Navy, and keen divers Warren Brown, Paul Cushing, Mark Evans and Rosemary Lunn.