For many, New Year’s Eve is the perfect moment to make life-altering changes.
It’s a time when bad habits are renounced, love is declared and important decisions are made with each flute of champagne.
But for freestyle motocross rider Robbie Maddison, his plans for the biggest night of the year are special - involving a gravity-defying leap over San Diego Harbour.
A reasonable feat, you might think, for someone who has already conquered the Corinth Canal in Greece or backflipped London’s Tower Bridge. But this is a stunt which rouses more trepidation than it does disbelief.
The typically fearless Maddison will attempt to leap 122m on a dirtbike - a Guinness world record - between two ramps over water.
He is clued up on the physics behind the feat, but more so
The house she has bought outright, on an ugly main road south of Tower Bridge, is the first she has owned: she's lived in rented places all her adult life, 
The woman waiting for me in a hotel suite, Thames side by Tower Bridge, is the Queen, no less. But she is also Prime Suspect's steely Superintendent Jane 
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