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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/weary-britons-tell-of-tunisia-chaos.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Hilary Carrington-Hobson (centre) greets her mother Betty Carrington and father Ian Carrington as they arrive back to Manchester Airport" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/min-weary-britons-tell-of-tunisia-chaos.jpg" alt="Hilary Carrington-Hobson (centre) greets her mother Betty Carrington and father Ian Carrington as they arrive back to Manchester Airport"/></a></p>
<p>Thousands of weary Britons are spending their first day home after returning from trouble-riven Tunisia.</p>
<p>The vast majority enjoying winter sun breaks in the north African country were flown home by their tour operators over the last two days.</p>
<p>On Saturday, Thomson and First Choice evacuated 1,437 holidaymakers on seven flights to airports around the country &#8211; and Thomas Cook flew 300 passengers to Manchester. The day before, Thomas Cook flew 1,500 passengers back.</p>
<p>It is thought there were approximately 1,000 expats living across Tunisia &#8211; famed for its beautiful climate and quality of life &#8211; before this week&#8217;s political upheaval saw scores of nationals killed, buildings torched and businesses looted.</p>
<p>The Foreign Office said that between 150 and 200 independent travellers in the country had registered on its website to let the British authorities know where they were.</p>
<p>On Saturday night, some returning passengers compared the popular tourist spot to a war zone.</p>
<p>Angela Khalifa, 56, from Newhall, Derbyshire, was visiting her Tunisian husband&#8217;s family but had to cut her holiday short by a day. After jetting into Birmingham Airport, she said: &#8220;The banks had broken glass, and the big shops too, like a little war zone with the military all there now. I was a bit frightened coming back.&#8221;</p>
<p>Holidaymakers were ordered to leave after the Foreign Office urged only essential travel.</p>
<p>During the unrest more than 1,000 prisoners escaped from Mahdia jail and 42 inmates were killed in a prison fire in Monastir.</p>
<p>On Saturday, the nation swore in a new interim president, Fouad Mebazaa, with former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali fleeing to Saudi Arabia.</p>
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