‘Great to be back’: tears in London as quarantine-free travel from France resumes

First Eurostar train arrives at St Pancras on Sunday morning since Covid restrictions were lifted

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Not until the automatic doors of Eurostar arrivals opened could Sue Stevens be sure that her daughter, Laura, had made it back from Paris.

Eighteen bitterly hard months had passed since they had seen each other, while a late moment of bureaucratic confusion at the French departure point had cast some last-minute doubt.