Gloucester's inaugural Paper Plane Championships were held amidst much cheering

Updated January 18 2016 - 5:00pm, first published 12:00am

It was a tense but jubilant finish to the inaugural Gloucester Paper Planes Championships on Saturday, when seven year old Archie Murray from Firefly bested the final heat with a lucky flight to be proclaimed the Champion of Champions. Organised to complement the Gloucester Gallery’s current interactive ‘Come Fly With Me’ exhibition, the competition took place after a viewing in the Soldiers Club auditorium of the ever-popular Australian film Paper Planes, and proved the point that you’re never too old or too young to fly... a paper plane.

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