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Eastern in the Driving Seat as Emmerdale Moved Temporarily to Scotland! |
June 2005
Almost forty cast and crew of the award winning Yorkshire Television soap Emmerdale flew to Aberdeen from Leeds Bradford Airport on Friday 17 June
on an aircraft specially laid on by regional airline Eastern Airways.
The stars played their part in raising £250,000 over the weekend for the children’s leukaemia charity the Anthony Nolan Trust at the ‘Emmerdale Extravaganza’ in Banchory, near Aberdeen
This years Extravaganza broke all records and, as the Humberside based company’s Marketing Manager Nadine Shaw explains, providing the use of the Saab 2000 helped get this year’s event literally off to a ‘flying start’. “The Anthony Nolan Trust is our nominated charity and transporting the Emmerdale people at times which fit in with their hectic filming schedules allows the money that would have been spent on chartering the aircraft to go directly to the charity. We were also heavily involved throughout the weekend as well with the ‘Eastern Airways halfway house’ seeing our Scotland Director Graeme Ross serving burgers and champagne to those taking part in the golf tournament that forms part of the extravaganza and the Eastern Airways Information Desk providing details of what is going on throughout the day.”
In the run up to the event, on Saturday 11 June kind staff, family and friends of Eastern Airways are estimated to have raised more than £8,000 for the charity following a series of ‘Run A Mile’ events held around the country in Aberdeen, Inverness, Grimsby and Norwich.
The annual event, at the Inchmarlo Golf Centre, featured a host of family activities including Bungee Jumps, Karting Grand Prix, Bike Ride, Golf Classic, 20 minute run, skip, jump, walk or toddle, Schools Challenge, Wing Walking, 10k Run, live bands, food, shopping, entertainments, all the fun of the fair and much more!
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Issued on behalf of Eastern Airways by The BIG Partnership.
Notes to Editors:
Eastern Airways operates some 750 scheduled flights each week and will carry approximately 500,000 passengers this year on a network embracing Aberdeen, Belfast International, Birmingham, Bristol, Durham Tees Valley, Edinburgh, Humberside, Inverness, Isle of Man, Leeds Bradford, London Stansted, Manchester, Newcastle, Norwich, Nottingham East Midlands, Southampton and Wick.
Eastern Airways' fleet comprises British Aerospace J32s/J41s and Saab 2000 jetprop aircraft. In addition to its scheduled passenger services, Eastern Airways operates a special to-order passenger and freight aircraft charter service in the UK and mainland Europe for corporate and private clients.
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