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Doddy tickled with new service
12:15pm Wednesday 8th July 2009
KEN Dodd, one of Liverpool’s best loved sons, was tickled pink with the launch of a new service from Southampton Airport to the home of the Beatles.
Armed with tickling sticks and trademark jam butties, the tombstone-toothed comedian waved off Eastern Airways’s first plane to the south coast from John Lennon Airport.
The Humberside-based independent carrier has introduced three flights every weekday from Southampton to Liverpool.
The first passenger to check-in was oil contractor Edward Smith, who works at Fawley oil refinery but hails from Ken Dodd’s famed Knotty Ash. He said: “These new flights from Liverpool are very convenient as I can be in Southampton for 9am. I saw the article in the Daily Echo highlighting the new Liverpool flights and they will save me a considerable amount of time.”
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Ken Dodd is pictured with Eastern Airways’ cabin attendant Louise Bradford and captain Ian Nunnington.
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