Hi-flying Jody

Airborne MP Opik taking controls
Daily Post

Lembit Opik will take Charles Kennedy to heaven and back today when he pilots a plane carrying the Liberal Democrat leader.

The Montgomeryshire MP, who gained his pilot's licence five years ago, will jet Mr Kennedy to Hartlepool immediately after his closing speech to the Bournemouth conference.

Yesterday, Mr Opik flew the twin-engined plane from Welshpool to Teeside to whisk Jody Dunn, the Lib Dem candidate in next week's Hartlepool by-election, down to Bournemouth.