Blog - Richard Corbett MEP

UK Labour MEP for Yorkshire and the Humber (visit his website at www.richardcorbett.org.uk)

Wednesday, May 17, 2006

I hear Belfast International Airport is to be renamed after George Best, following the trend set originally by JFK (New York) and continued by other airports like John Lennon (Liverpool) and Robin Hood (Doncaster).

As a regular user of Leeds-Bradford I have been wondering if they too will follow suit, and if they do what it will be called?

Leeds legend John Charles would be the obvious choice if you were to name it after a sportsman but I can’t imagine many Bradford fans would be happy with this. Could I one day really fly into the Dean Windass International Airport?

There is one internationally renown name that falls neatly between Leeds and Bradford, and right on the airport’s doorstep. Guiseley paid host to the very first, and now a very famous, chip shop owned by Harry Ramsden. Surely not?

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