Musicians hire fishing boat to beat France quarantine
Jo Buckley, the Dunedin Consort's chief executive, told BBC Scotland they knew quarantine was a risk as they travelled to France on Wednesday.And if they had withdrawn from the concert on the basis of speculation about new restrictions, the organisation would have lost"many thousands of pounds", she added.
When the quarantine rules were announced late on Thursday night, the group spent hours online trying to find ways to get home before the deadline. Eventually - on Friday morning - they tracked down a firm which hired out a boat for fishing trips from Hayling Island.
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