Death plunge skydiver was 'loved by everybody'

The family of a much-loved skydiver who died at the weekend when her main chute failed to deploy said she was an independent woman who "let nothing get in her way".

Pamela Gower, 49, from Hebburn, South Tyneside, suffered fatal injuries when she fell from 15,000ft and hit a parked car in a cul-de-sac next to the airfield in Shotton Colliery, County Durham, on Saturday afternoon.