The officer could only advise the pair to raise a stink on boarding the next plane to avoid leaving Africa.

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England's Joe Worsley could make the plane and Wales' Andy Powell, Ireland's Alan Quinlan, the Scottish pair of Alasdair Strokosch and Allister Hogg and England's Tom Rees can all have a case made for them.

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