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‘It means the world’: Families and friends reunite at UK’s Heathrow

‘It means the world’: Families and friends reunite at UK’s Heathrow

BEN MAKORI  FAMILIES and friends were overjoyed at London's Heathrow Airport after a travel rule change meant they could reunite after 18 months of pandemic separation. "Very, very excited. It means the world," said Sue Blake, as she waited to greet her son, daughter-in-law and grandson who had flown in from New York and who she last saw two years ago. "It's a big chunk of his life and I'm so thrilled for him that he can come here," she said of the eight-year-old. Watching the hugs and tears in the arrivals hall, Heathrow's boss urged Britain to remove barriers…
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Inside Britain’s quarantine hotels

Inside Britain’s quarantine hotels

HANNAH McKAY and SARAH YOUNG MOHAMED Noor faces 10 days in COVID-19 quarantine in a hotel room near London's Heathrow Airport after falling foul of new border controls because of a flight delay. "I don't have a book. I don't have a Koran. I don't have nothing here," Noor, a 55-year-old Muslim, said by phone after his arrival on Monday, a day later than planned, landed him with a 1,750-pound ($2,400) bill. In another hotel nearby, 61-year-old Sole, who declined to give her surname, said she realised too late that the new rules would kick in before she returned from…
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