Three Royal Navy ships will be drafted to help return Britons stranded abroad, as UK airspace remains restricted because of ash from a volcano in Iceland.
The ships HMS Ark Royal, HMS Ocean and HMS Albion are heading for Spain and unspecified Channel ports.
The move was announced by Gordon Brown after a meeting of the UK's emergency committee, Cobra.
One-Minute World News 
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