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Liverpool Daily Post newspaper clipping from October 25, 1984 with headline 'Holidays hit as firm goes broke'

Liverpool Daily Post newspaper clipping from October 25, 1984 with headline 'Holidays hit as firm goes broke'

A press clipping from the Liverpool Daily Post dated October 25, 1984, reporting on a major holiday company collapse affecting 10,000 tourists. The article references this as Britain's biggest holiday company failure since Sir Freddie Laker's airline collapse in January 1982, drawing a direct comparison to the famous aviation entrepreneur's bankruptcy.

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