Remote British territory could be cut off from outside world amid row with RAF

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Remote British territory could be cut off from outside world amid row with RAF

St Helena, a remote British Overseas Territory off the African coast, is at risk of being completely cut off from air travel due to a dispute with an RAF base on a nearby island. The row centres on the RAF's refusal to allow emergency diversionary landings for civilian aircraft serving the island's 4,400 residents. Weekly flights, currently run by Airlink, could be grounded if the standoff is not resolved. Without …