Billionaire makes Spitfire donation

CANADIAN billionaire Galen Weston has donated thousands of euro towards the restoration of an RAF Spitfire dug from a Co Donegal bog earlier this summer.

The Second World War fighter aircraft that crashed on the Inishowen peninsula in 1941, was the first one commissioned from a £100,000 donation made by Mr Weston’s father, Garfield, during the Battle of Britain.

The excavation of the historic aircraft from Glenshinney bog, Moneydarragh, Gleneely, on June 28 last was said to have surprised and delighted the wealthy Canadian businessman.