A coach full of students and teachers took the heartbreaking decision to turn back at Dover from a dream trip playing netball at Disneyland Paris.
Students from the Marches Academy Trust in fancy dress costumes at Dover
"It was a very emotional time but we made the decision to come back and were alongside other schools to decide to do the same. The coach was not actually in the port so staff had to make the very difficult decision. If they had entered the port they were told that they would be waiting for at least another 15 hours.
The trip was to go to play netball in Disneyland Paris and the school send a team every year. They had all dressed up in Disney characters and were looking forward to the time away during part of the Easter holidays.
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