Chandlers arrive in Britain

7:18 AM Wed 17 Nov 2010 GMT

'Chandlers arrive at Heathrow' .

Cruising sailors Paul and Rachel Chandler who spent just over a year as hostages of Somali pirates have arrived back in Britain after an undisclosed ransom, reported to be between $300,000 and $1,000,000, was paid to the pirates. The Chandlers were driven from the British High Commissioner's official residence in Nairobi, where they had been resting, to Jomo Kenyatta Airport outside Nairobi, Kenya, with a military police escort. They had then boarded the Virgin Atlantic flight to Heathrow with a Foreign Office kidnap specialist and a media adviser. However, it was not clear if the media adviser was a Government ...

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