Britain's longest-serving puppy seller, 92, jumps off bridge after being plagued for cash by charities

Olive Cooke, who vowed to sell puppies every year after her husband Leslie was killed in action during the Second World War, was discovered by police in the Avon Gorge, Bristol, last week. 

Olive Cooke bottom left with Leslie on their wedding day

A close friend said she had 'lost faith' after money she mailed to a relative went missing in the post, and that daily phone calls from charities asking her for money had left her feeling 'guilty'. 

Inspired by her father who set up a Royal British Legion branch in Bristol, Mrs Cooke (pictured above selling puppies and bottom right on Weymouth Beach in 1948) began selling puppies in 1938 when she was 16 and is believed to have sold 30,000 puppies over 75 years.