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Added on the 18/04/2016 14:43:16 - Copyright : Reuters - Next Media
In response to the outbreak of a rapidly spreading COVID-19 virus mutation, over 40 countries have banned flights from the UK. At the same time, the UK government has shut down most of London and South East England in a new round of lockdowns. Over the weekend, rank-and-file Londoners flocked to train and bus stations to get out of town while they still could. But according to Business Insider, members of the monied class didn't have to battle for space on an overhead storage bin. Instead, British high society went to London's private jet terminals to catch charter flights out of the country.
Sacha Baron Cohen and Isla Fisher have joined forces with Salesforce Chief Executive Marc Benioff and media company DMGT to send a plane load of PPE to London's Heathrow airport from China.
The Royal Air Force plane carrying the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II arrives in London after being flown from Edinburgh, accompanied by her daughter Princess Anne. The C-17 Globemaster plane, recently used for aid missions in Ukraine, arrives at the Northolt airbase ahead of the queen's funeral in the British capital on Monday. IMAGES