Topic Lifecycle: Dormant
This topic is currently dormant in the news cycle. It was last covered on Thursday 17 September 2026 and has not appeared in recent broadcasts.
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Betty Bromage, a 97-year-old former nurse from Cheltenham, broke her own world record as the oldest female wing walker. She performed a wing walk on a moving plane, including a barrel roll, to raise money for the stroke unit at Cheltenham that treated her after a stroke last year. She is partially sighted. She began extreme challenges at age 87, including abseiling and a zip wire. She plans to repeat the wing walk when she turns 100. The story was covered by BBC ONE West and BBC NEWS.
Key Claims by Channel
| Claim | BBC News | BBC One |
|---|---|---|
| Betty Bromage is 97 years old. | ||
| She broke her own world record as the oldest female wing walker. | ||
| She raised money for the stroke unit in Cheltenham. | ||
| She had a stroke last year. | ||
| She is partially sighted or almost blind. | ||
| She started wing walking at age 87. | ||
| She has previously abseiled down a tower and taken on a zip wire in Snowdonia. | ||
| She asked the pilot to perform a barrel roll during the wing walk. | ||
| She plans to do another wing walk when she turns 100 in two and a half years. | ||
| She was a trained children's nurse and worked at Dr. Barnardo's home in Bristol. | ||
| She lives by a motto about making the most of life. | ||
| Her friends and neighbours from her retirement village in Cheltenham watched nervously. | ||
| The stroke unit staff sent her a good luck message. |
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Timeline
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| Date | Channel 5 | BBC News | BBC One | BBC Two | Channel 4 | GB News | ITV | Sky News |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thursday 17 September 2026 | — | — | 2m 47s 1.8% | — | — | — | — | — |
| Thursday 6 August 2026 | — | 2m 28s 5.3% | 3m 18s 3.8% | — | — | — | — | — |