A VETERANS group has sounded the last post after more than half a century.

The 279 (Otley and District) Squadron Air Training Corps Old Comrades Association has held its last annual reunion due to dwindling numbers.

More than 40 former ATC members, including some from as far away as Devon and Belfast, and guests spent a nostalgic dinner at Otley Golf Club.

Association secretary Geoff Storr, 73, said: "The evening went off very well and there was a lot of nostalgia but inevitably it was quite sad, being the last event for something that started back in 1941.

"But I think we have done the right thing because if you carry on with these things for too long, people get too old to organise the events or come along.

"It will be missed but we felt it was better to go out on a high while there was still a reasonable number of people attending rather than hanging on and seeing it wither away and die."

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