Daring cinema staff from Keighley hope to stage their own big-budget spectacular in aid of an African baby home.

Asad Ahmed and Yasser Yaseem hope their sponsored parachute jump will raise lots of money to help build the orphanage in western Kenya.

Yasser, 17, from Keighley, and Bradford teenager Asad, 18, work at Keighley Picture House with Edinburgh Univer-sity student Ros Willett. Ros recently spent six weeks in Kenya helping landscape land around the partly-built home. When Asad and Yasser said they wanted to do a jump for charity she suggested as a recipient the home, which is in the village of Mogogosiek.

Ros travelled to Africa with friends as part of a project run by the international charity Africa Inland Mission, which is building the home. She says: "It's for abandoned and orphaned babies or those that need special care in their early months."

Yasser and Asad will leap from an aeroplane on Saturday, September 26, above an airfield in Peterborough. To sponsor the jump phone the Picture House on 01535 602561.

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