An ex-professional rugby player who was paralysed in a horrific accident on the field has bravely completed a series of remarkable dream triumphs that medics said would be impossible.

Jimmy Gittins, 36, broke his neck in two places playing for a local side seven years ago and was told he wouldn't walk again, would be unable to conceive a child and most certainly wouldn't be able to fulfil his dream of doing a skydive.

But determined Jimmy, a former rugby league player with Wakefield Trinity and Dewsbury Rams, has confounded the odds by performing all three of the amazing feats.

First, he managed to slowly walk down the aisle in 2007 using crutches to meet his sweetheart Lucy, and the pair were overjoyed when Lucy gave birth to little Annie Jude in March.

Now Jimmy is celebrating a third against-the-odds triumph by hurling himself 15,000ft from a plane for a fundraising skydive.

Jimmy has raised thousands of pounds for the Steve Prescott Foundation - a rugby playing friend who was diagnosed with a rare cancer in 2006.