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Postby Nickolas » Sat Apr 23, 2011 3:04 pm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-13175040

Nice piece.
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Re: 558 in the news.............

Postby Jigsaw » Sat Apr 23, 2011 3:08 pm

All publicity can only be good :D
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Re: 558 in the news.............

Postby Nickolas » Sat Apr 23, 2011 4:05 pm

Jigsaw wrote:All publicity can only be good :D

...And good publicity is even better!!
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Re: 558 in the news.............

Postby Dan4th » Sat Apr 23, 2011 4:06 pm

...and they got their FACTS straight!

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Re: 558 in the news.............

Postby Minty4371 » Thu Jan 12, 2012 3:02 pm

Nice piece in our local paper today :) :ymapplause:
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Re: 558 in the news.............

Postby Xplumberlives » Thu Jan 12, 2012 3:19 pm

Nice article, shame the journalist couldn't spell! :-o
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Re: 558 in the news.............

Postby Minty4371 » Thu Jan 12, 2012 3:23 pm

Missed the spelling mistake. Which word?
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Re: 558 in the news.............

Postby Xplumberlives » Thu Jan 12, 2012 3:26 pm

Hanger should read hangAr! :-o
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Re: 558 in the news.............

Postby Dee » Fri Jan 13, 2012 9:34 am

Nice! :)
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Re: 558 in the news.............

Postby Nickolas » Fri Jan 13, 2012 10:10 am

to much reliance on spell chequer.
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Re: 558 in the news.............

Postby Kermit » Fri Jan 13, 2012 12:34 pm

:)) you said it ! :))
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Re: 558 in the news.............

Postby Sooty655 » Wed Jan 18, 2012 8:39 pm

A reasonably well written piece in Professional Engineering (the IMechE magazine) here.

They also published a reader's letter proposing state funding here.
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Re: 558 in the news.............

Postby Jigsaw » Wed Jan 18, 2012 10:55 pm

The PE article is pretty good but..................who is the headless repair worker :-o
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Re: 558 in the news.............

Postby Pop Rivet » Tue Apr 03, 2012 11:51 pm

Hi everyone, just joined the forum.

There was a story in the Birmingham Mail which told of a vulcan dropping the bomb on christmas island in nov 1957, as a vulcan fan i had never heard of this so i done some research and found it was in fact a vickers valiant (XD818)

ive infomed the newspaper of their mistake and how the story may affect 558s funding, the nice lady at the Mail asked for more details to run at the side of a correction note, ive forwarded the link to vtts site, hopefully it will bring in a few more donations :) :)
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Re: 558 in the news.............

Postby Xplumberlives » Wed Apr 04, 2012 8:04 am

Well done, I hope it helps! :ymapplause:
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Re: 558 in the news.............

Postby Jigsaw » Wed Apr 04, 2012 8:14 am

Xplumberlives wrote:Well done, I hope it helps! :ymapplause:


Agreed
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