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Sian Traynor

Edinburgh family 'forced to get a boat home' from holiday after flight chaos

An Edinburgh family have been travelling for nearly four days after getting caught up in a series of travel chaos as they tried to get home from Sydney.

Finally heading out to Australia for his sister's wedding that had been postponed due to the pandemic, Ben Newbon, 36, his wife and their two young children had spent two weeks there before trying to return to Scotland.

Scheduled to stop in both Singapore and Amsterdam, the family had been told before they "even left Sydney" that their Singapore connection was delayed, meaning they would miss the following flight.

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