Doc's aid blow.(News Local)

From: Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England) | Date: March 23, 2006 | Copyright information

Byline: Mike Blackburn

A Teesside doctor on a mercy mission to Africa has slammed airline regulations after he was stopped from taking vital medical supplies on his flight.

Stockton GP Paul Williams and his partner Vicky Holt, a nurse, will spend two years working with the deprived Batwa pygmy tribe in Uganda.

The couple were flying out with British Airways today - but due to the airline's strict baggage regulations most of their medical supplies a...

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