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Evening News newspaper clipping from September 18, 1981 showing family who won free Laker Airways holiday to Los Angeles

Evening News newspaper clipping from September 18, 1981 showing family who won free Laker Airways holiday to Los Angeles

A newspaper clipping from the Evening News dated September 18, 1981, featuring an article titled 'Simon's super trip' about a Farnworth family who won a free holiday via Laker Airways to Los Angeles. The article includes a photograph of the family and describes how seven-year-old Simon's slogan won a British Rail competition, leading to their trip on a Laker jet for a weeks-long holiday to Disneyland and Universal Studios.

newspaper clipping Evening News 1981 Laker Airways Los Angeles holiday competition British Rail Disneyland press coverage 1980s

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