THE sky above the Dee Valley filled with a barrage of colour as 14 hot air balloons took off at day break yesterday.
The mass ascent provided a spectacular climax to the highly successful Llangollen Hot Air Balloon Festival.
David Green, whose company Xuberance Events, organises the festival was delighted at the fitting airborne finale.
During the weekend, daring stunts from the James Bond blockbuster Casino Royale were recreated by a team of talented freerunners who all live locally.
The 007 classic opened memorably with a thrilling chase in which Bond (Daniel Craig) pursues an incredibly athletic bad guy, played by free-running master Sebastian Foucan, through a building site, jumping off cranes and down lift shafts.
It introduced the world to the amazing urban acrobatics that is free running, a sport developed by Frenchman Foucan that involves moving across an urban landscape in the most direct and daring way possible.
FR3RUN, young men from Wrexham and Denbighshire aged from 15 to 20, entertained the crowd with a sequence of jumps, spins, twists and acrobatic leaps.
David Green said: “There was a fantastic crowd this year which gave the whole event a brilliant atmosphere and loads to do.
“The model hot air balloon festival, which is the biggest in the UK, inside the pavilion was a huge hit and the free-running display was absolutely amazing.”
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