'Our worst nightmare': UK family to be split up in coronavirus evacuations

Sindy Siddle, who has a Chinese passport, told she cannot leave with her husband and child

A British family trapped in the centre of the coronavirus outbreak are facing their "worst nightmare" after being told wife and mother Sindy Siddle will not be allowed on the plane evacuating them from the country.

Siddle travelled to Hubei province with her husband, Jeff, and nine-year-old daughter, Jasmine, to spend lunar new year with her family in the village of Hongtu.