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Half a Spitfire sells for £18,000 after enthusiast who worked on it in his garage for 20 years dies aged 83
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Peter Arnold, who came to be known as 'Mr Spitfire', rescued the fuselage after it was deployed on the Salisbury Plain Ranges in 1948.

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