Lotto winner sails to rescue of children

A GROUP of schoolchildren stranded at a Dutch airport were ferried back to the UK after a lottery winner stepped in to help.

By The Newsroom

Published 16th Apr 2010, 23:41 BST

Updated 17th Apr 2010, 00:57 BST

Tony Dugard, who won a share of 2.2 million in July as part of a syndicate of eight from the Corus steelworks in Scunthorpe, paid 550 for a ferry crossing from Amsterdam after flights were grounded. Mr Dugard had joined the party of 16, including 11 pupils aged 15 to 16 from Grimsby, on the trip to Borneo, Indonesia.