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Jane Corscadden

North Belfast woman on 50 years of teaching piano.. and paragliding in her 80s for charity

Margaret Thompson has been teaching piano in North Belfast for the past 50 years and shows no signs of slowing down.

The 86-year-old is full of energy and regularly takes part in a painting club, crocheting club, and the committee at her local church. All of this on top of teaching piano for 20 hours a week, and taking part in a local lunch club where she jokes she's "going down to make lunch for the old folk."

But one thing that has been close to Margaret's heart for many years is the charity work she takes part in. Most recently, at the end of July she travelled to Interlaken in Switzerland to paraglide as a way to fundraise for the Northern Ireland Hospice.

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