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Memorial for Kegworth air disaster victims 25 years on

Today marks 25 years since one of the UK's worst air disasters, when 47 people died after a British Midland Boeing 737 en route to Belfast crashed into an embankment on the M1 during an attempted emergency landing at East Midlands airport.

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Ex-Central News reporter on covering Kegworth crash

Former Central News East reporter Anna Soubry, who's now the Conservative MP for Broxtowe, was one of the first journalists on the scene of the Kegworth air disaster.

Here she describes the moment she first heard about the plane coming down short of the runway at East Midlands Airport, and how she rushed into the Nottingham newsroom.

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