Rising to the occasion
WHILE we’re on an Anglo-French theme...the roof of York Theatre Royal’s café is now playing host to a Hurricane fighter plane.
It was winched into place on Saturday to commemorate 70 years since two French bomber squadrons arrived in York during the war.
The anniversary coincides almost exactly with York’s Tour de France Grand Départ.
“The Hurricane will provide both an amazing talking point... and a visual spectacle for the television cameras following the peloton as it swoops past the Theatre Royal,” said Ian Reed of the Yorkshire Air Museum where the aircraft is usually based.
Spectacular is the word. Another example of York rising to the occasion.
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