'They reassured us it was safe to fly us there.' Holidaymaker Kelly Watson tells SkySarahJane she flew to Rhodes on Saturday, but was taken straight to an evacuation centre as the hotel she had booked was on fire. Live: 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602 and YT
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Plus, Niall is joined by Robert Colvile, director of the Centre for Policy Studies and former Tory adviser, to discuss if net zero policies can still be vote winners as the row continues over ULEZ expansion in London.Wildfires surrounded the city of Palermo in Sicily overnight, amid a relentless heatwave which sent temperatures on the island into the 40s this week.While in other pictures the fire can be seen tearing down a hillside.
She told Sky News she was sitting in the plane on the tarmac at Stansted when a member of TUI cabin crew said, while they understood there were concerns about the fires in Rhodes, the flight would still take off. Kelly praised the locals in Rhodes, saying they provided food and water to the people in evacuation centres, as well as toys and bedding.
Raymond said if they were to cancel, due to the government advice not changing, they would forfeit the holiday.
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