Musicians beat quarantine rules by chartering fishing boat to sail from France

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A group of Scottish musicians chartered a fishing boat between France and the UK to beat new coronavirus quarantine rules - getting home with just 10 minutes to spare.

The Dunedin Consort, based in Edinburgh, had travelled to France for a concert in Normandy - their first performance together since lockdown began in March.

The eight baroque musicians arrived at Hayling Island in Hampshire at 3.50am on Saturday after a five hour Channel crossing, just ten minutes before new government rules - stating that anyone coming back from France would have to isolate for two weeks - would have forced them to quarantine for two weeks.

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