{"id":9790,"date":"2015-08-19T12:41:40","date_gmt":"2015-08-19T11:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/?p=9790"},"modified":"2015-08-19T12:42:01","modified_gmt":"2015-08-19T11:42:01","slug":"battle-of-britain-75-commemorative-event-announced-at-ards-airfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2015\/08\/battle-of-britain-75-commemorative-event-announced-at-ards-airfield\/","title":{"rendered":"Battle of Britain 75:  Commemorative event announced at Ards Airfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>2015 marks the 75<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of the Battle of Britain \u2013 the greatest aerial conflict of the Second World War, which turned the tide in the war against Germany.<\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/press14.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9791\" title=\"press\" src=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/press14.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"299\" \/><\/a> In recognition of this important anniversary, Ards and North Down Borough Council is holding a special commemorative event featuring a spitfire and hurricane fly-past, jazz picnic and vintage fair at Ards Air Field on Saturday 19 September.<\/p>\n<p>The sounds of the 40s will be recreated by headline act the Syd Lawrence Orchestra, known as the \u2018Best Big Band in the Land\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>For further information on this event please contact Ards Visitor Information Centre on (028) 9182 6846 or email <a href=\"mailto:ardsvic@ardsandnorthdown.gov.uk\">ardsvic@ardsandnorthdown.gov.uk<\/a> <em> <\/em><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2015 marks the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain \u2013 the greatest aerial conflict of the Second World War, which turned the tide in the war against Germany. In recognition of this important anniversary, Ards and North Down Borough Council is holding a special commemorative event featuring a spitfire and hurricane fly-past, jazz picnic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2015\/08\/battle-of-britain-75-commemorative-event-announced-at-ards-airfield\/\">Continued<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9790"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9790"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9793,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9790\/revisions\/9793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}