August 2nd - Plans announced for returning to Rhodes

Holidaymakers whose trips to Rhodes were cut short by wildfires have been offered a week’s free stay on the island by the Greek prime minister. After wildfires ravaged up to 15 percent of Rhodes, Kyriakos Mitsotakis told ITV Good Morning Britain: “The island is perfectly back to normal.”

Around 20,000 tourists were evacuated from resorts in the southeast of the island when wildfires spread on 22 July.

Many overseas visitors were placed in emergency shelters set up in schools and other public buildings, and flown back early in an airlift.

Anyone whose holiday ended early is, according to the prime minister, entitled to a free week.

It is not clear how the offer will work, with key questions unanswered. I have had a stab at answering them with my colleague, Charlotte Hindle.

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