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Europe's airports hit by Iceland volcano ash chaos

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Flights across much of Europe will be severely disrupted well into Saturday because of drifting ash ejected from a volcano in Iceland, officials said.

The BBC's Hugh Schofield describes the scene at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris, Steve Rosenberg is at Frankfurt's main airport and Maryam Moshiri at Heathrow.

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