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'Take stranded Scots home on emergency flights' MPs urge

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Scots stranded abroad because of the coronavirus crisis need be taken home on emergency rescue flights, MPs are urging UK government chiefs.A cross-party letter has been sent to foreign secretary Dominic Raab calling for more planes and assistance in getting British citizens stuck in foreign countries back to the UK.

Stirling SNP MP Alyn Smith said he understood around 65,000 British citizens have been left fighting to return.Since the outbreak most commercial flights have been suspended and many have been left paying huge costs for return flights.Others have been kicked out of hotels and hostels.The Daily Record told of Scots nurse Rebecca Knox who became stranded in Laos, in south-east Asia, after failing to get a flight home.And Willie

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