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Ascension Island: Cut off from the rest of the world
Weekly flights linking Ascension Island to the UK were stopped recently
In the middle of the Atlantic Ocean resides the tip of an old volcano called Ascension Island. It's perhaps most well know as a staging post for troops during the Falklands War.
The British overseas territory home to 800 people, is even more cut off than it used to be after weekly flights linking the island to the UK were stopped.
Our correspondent Alastair Leithead reports on what it is like to live on the remote island.
(Image: Ascension Island, credit: Stewart McPherson)
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