SHE’S only been swimming for a year but little Eryn Taylor-Buck is taking on an aquatic challenge today to help poorly babies at Barnsley Hospital.

The five-year-old - who has only recently achieved her 100m badge - is on a mission to do as many widths as she can when she takes the plunge for a sponsored swim at Hoyland Leisure Centre this evening.

Mum Alison Taylor Fellows, 33, said the sponsored challenge came about after Eryn, a pupil at Ward Green Primary school, got herself upset about poorly children at the hospital not having a swimming pool to use.

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