A NORTH Yorkshire gliding club has welcomed members of a charity to take to the skies with them.

Burn Gliding Club held its annual Sportability event last week, with 14 members of the Sportability charity, which helps people with paralysis or other disabilities take part in sporting pursuits.

Some of the members from Sportability were MS sufferers with varying degrees of disability, and were taken for flights in gliders throughout the day with instructors Chris O’Boyle, Dave Bellamy, Keith Springate and Tony Flannery.

A spokesman for the club said: "They all loved the flights they had and reckoned that gliding was probably the most exciting and fun thing they have ever done.

"But the day would have happened without our dedicated Burn Gliding Club members who volunteered their time to help. Thanks to members Bob Hanslip, Ian Cudahy, Ron Jubb, Mac MacDermott, Andy Toone, Chris Cooper, Mick Robinson, Benjie Ambler, Andrea Hayes-Oldroyd, Chris Hays-Oldroyd, Alex Gibb, James Duda, Frank Bennett and Alastair Mack who did all the great photos."

The club started at Doncaster Aerodrome in 1960 as Doncaster Gliding Club until 1983, before moving to Burn in 1984, where the club uses three runways that were originally built for the Halifax Bombers based there in the Second World War.

To find out more about the club, go to burnglidingclub.co.uk or to find out more about Sportability go to sportability.org.uk