SUMMARY: NELSON’S COLUMN became the latest conquest in the craze of “base jumping” yesterday when a professional stuntman parachuted 170ft from a ledge under the admiral’s statue in Trafalgar Square as part of a publicity stunt over the Chinese occupation of Tibet (Sam Lister writes).

NELSON’S COLUMN became the latest conquest in the craze of “base jumping” yesterday when a professional stuntman parachuted 170ft from a ledge under the admiral’s statue in Trafalgar Square as part of a publicity stunt over the Chinese occupation of Tibet (Sam Lister writes).

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