Air Cadets Provide Perfect Runway

Air cadets from 83 St Georges Squadron, based at Trench TA Centre, stepped in to help ensure that the visitors and bands at the Ironbridge Gorge Brass Band Festival could enjoy the weekend despite the rain. It was particularly fitting that the Cadets helped position the temporary pathways supplied by Telford-based Sommerfeld Flexboard - the company made its name by supplying temporary runways and roads during the Second World War. One of the event organisers John Marsh said “The speed of response helped to save the day - we only phoned Sommerfeld on Friday morning, by lunchtime they had delivered the EuroMats and on Saturday morning the heavens opened. The Cadets were brilliant throughout the weekend and the record crowds enjoyed a fantastic free two-day festival without anyone getting muddy at all”.

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