... AN The Big Air Race IS On A record 22 planes will be particlpating in the fourth annual Amelia Earhart London to Derry commemorative air race tomorrow. The entrants Including two from Northern Ireland and five ladies will depart from London at 1 p.m. ...

... funds from the Council and to present its support for the Amelia Earhart Race. While wnolehearted support was expressed for the Association, Committee members had reservations about the Amelia Earhart Race with the majority feeling that Council was not getting ...

... salver, a special produced Casserole Dish and a £25 voucher for sports equipment. The special meal Brendan cooked for Amelia Earhart was “Chicken Amelia” — Lemony Chicken Herbed Ballyarnett. Brendan said, “‘Miss Earhart landed her aircraft in Ballye ...

... EARHART GETS GO-! It now seems certain that the Amelia Earhart Air Race will go ahead in 1986 after councillors on the Council’'s Amenities and Leisure Committee decided to accept a “‘trimmed” estimate of the cost of staging the event. It was agreed ...

... Record entry A record entry of 21 aircraft has been received for Saturday’s Amelia Earhart commemoration race from Hatfield in London to Londonderry and two of the competitors are from Ulster. They are Mr John Dolan of Lifford who will be flying a Sesna ...

... PIONEERING spirit which made American aviator Amelia Earhart attempt a solo trans-Atlantic flight in 1932 and the prospect of some Derry hospitality, persuaded 17 pilots to complete the fourth annual Amelia Earhart London to Derry air race on Saturday, when ...

... EARHART RACE GETS GO-AHEAD It now seems certain that the Amelia Earhart Air Race will go ahead in 1986 after councillors on the Council’'s Amenities and Leisure Committee decided to accept a “trimmed”’ estimate of the cost of staging the event. It was ...

... grand final of a cross-channel cookery competition in London last week, creating a dish for his favourite personality — Amelia Earhart. The competition called “Cooking For A Star” was organised by Britain's National Association of Youth Clubs and Oxoo. ...

... Earhart Race “A Waste of Money” Sinn Fein Councillor Gerry Doherty has described the Amelia Earhart Air Race as a waste ¢f money and has called on Derry City Council not to give it any further grant aid. Speaking at last Thursday night’s meeting of the ...

... be financed, among them the museum and interpretative centre at Magazine Street, the Foyle Valley Railway Museum, the Amelia Earhart Cottage scheme, and the former Foyle College Arts Centre. All those schemes will impose considerable expenditure. Already ...

... was now in operation had been grant-aided, and the other projects to receive grant-aid through the programme were the Amelia Earhart Centre which work would soon start on, the Interpretative Centre, which was already being built, the Foyle Valley Railway ...

... is being made in the provision of attractions to visitors. Among projects already in hand are the O’Doherty Fort, the Amelia Earhart Interpretative Centre and the Foyle Valley Railway Museum. There are plans for a museum, a civic theatre and the possibility ...