Man ends 20-year Llandegley airport sign joke that cost £25k

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Man ends 20-year sign prank for airport that didn't exist and cost £25k

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It looks like an ordinary road sign, but actually signposts to an airport that only exists in people's imagination. But drive the two-and-a-half miles, as instructed, and you will end up not at an airport - not even an airfield - but just a field, on the outskirts of the village of Llandegley, Powys.The man behind it, Nicholas Whitehead, is a journalist who used to edit the Radnor edition of the Brecon and Radnor Express and once wrote with Monty Python's Terry Jones.

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