ISLANDERS exiled from their Indian Ocean home for more than 40 years have been given the biggest hope yet that they will be granted permission to return.Foreign Office minister Mark Simmonds has announced the Government is going ahead with a new feasibility study to look into the possibility of resettlement of the Chagos Islands.Islanders on the British-owned islands were evicted from their homes to make way for a US military airbase on Diego Garcia, the largest island in the group, in the...
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