Hot Air Ballooning Press Articles

Leicester Mercury - Film duo hailed

July 28, 2010 --

A FATHER and son have clinched a film-making award.

Guy Knox-Holmes, nine, and his father, Brent, of Market Harborough, won Best...

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Express & Echo; Exeter (UK) - Time to honour caring friends

July 28, 2010 --

DOZENS of nominations for the Teen team awards have poured into the Echo, showing teenagers are some of the leading members of our...

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Evening Post; Bristol (UK) - Golden event for our city's beautiful Belle

July 28, 2010 --

THE Bristol Belle was the first modern hot air balloon in Western Europe and this year's Astra Bristol International Balloon Fiesta will...

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Daily Mail (London, England), The - This is Britain's… HIDDEN SOCIAL WORKER; Sport can reach troubled inner-city areas like nothing else, says Lord Coe

July 26, 2010 --

Byline: by JONATHAN McEVOY Olympics Correspondent

THE idea was to go up in a hot air balloon for a bird's-eye view of an Olympic...

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Sunday Sun; Newcastle-upon-Tyne (UK) - More balloon flight refunds for four-year wait customers

July 25, 2010 --

MORE customers complaining about a hot air balloon have had refunds after asking for my help.

For the past two weeks I have told...

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Mail on Sunday (London, England), The - 'The jolt of the crash nearly drove my teeth through my brain'; The eagle did a double take as we flew past it

July 25, 2010 --

Byline: Stephen Tompkinson

One minute we were suspended under a giant hot-air balloon in a lidless wicker box, floating half a mile...

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Sentinel, The; Stoke-on-Trent (UK) - Remember 15 years ago

July 24, 2010 --

A YOUNG man was killed when his 12-bore shotgun went off as he was unloading it from the boot of his car at Blackbrook, near Newcastle...an...

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Nottingham Evening Post - City festival was on up 40 years ago

July 24, 2010 --

IT was advertised as "probably the biggest hot air balloon race ever held in Britain".

The balloon races in Wollaton Park, July...

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Daily Mail (London, England), The - WITH WALTER, WHY WORRY? Mendes plays down the Ibrox exodus by insisting Smith is the irreplaceable one

July 24, 2010 --

Byline: by STEPHEN McGOWAN

HE was the first to man the lifejackets in the great Rangers exodus. The departure of Pedro Mendes from...

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Press, The; Christchurch, New Zealand - Operator expects liftoff within 30 days

July 23, 2010 --

A Christchurch hot-air balloon company says it has rebutted some of the accusations behind a flying ban and expects to return to the skies...

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