A planned Battle of Britain Memorial Flight has been cancelled for a Shropshire World War II event, after a Spitfire crash on Saturday left a pilot dead.
He had been part of a Battle of Britain Memorial Flight flying near the air station.The BBMF was due to fly over Shropshire on Sunday for the annual Ironbridge WWII Weekend but that fly past has now been cancelled in the wake of the tragedy.
However, he added that Saturday had proved"a cracker" with a record number 10,000 through the door, including hundreds of people who dressed up for the day, with spivs, land girls and soldiers getting into the swing of things.
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