Bungling hotel staff left dozens of British schoolchildren stranded in the US after shredding 41 of their passports in error.
The pupils from Barr Beacon School in Walsall, in Birmingham, had been on a skiing trip in New Hampshire and were due to fly home on Saturday.
As of today, the group were still in the States enjoying an impromptu sightseeing trip in New York as embassy staff worked to get them emergency passports.
