WORLD Cup football hero Jack Charlton helps a charity event in North Yorkshire go with a swing.

Jack set aside his famous fishing rod and swapped it for a driver, joining 80 competing business people from all over the country, who converged on Pike Hills golf club on the A64 near Copmanthorpe.

Many of them were clients of Sitelink of Clifton Moor which hires out walkie-talkies and which with Motorola organised the event in aid of cancer research.

Afterwards the famous Geordie reminisced at a club supper over his days in the 1966 world-conquering team and as former manager of the successful Republic of Ireland squad.

Updated: 10:48 Monday, May 17, 2004