THIS year's Farnborough International Air Show was a record breaker, according to organisers, with the amount of business done more than double that of the last show, in 1998.

Figures for the number of visitors who attended the show's public days on Saturday and Sunday were not available as The Herald went to press, but a spokesman from the Society of British Aerospace Companies (SBAC) said the figure was expected to be around the same, if not better, than the 300,000 who attended the 1998 show.

A full version of this story can be found in the Farnham Herald of Aug 4.