RAF planes await order to set off to collect PPE from Turkey
Shipment of personal protective equipment for NHS was meant to arrive on Sunday
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Three RAF planes waiting to pick up a shipment of 400,000 protective gowns and other equipment urgently needed for the NHS remain on the tarmac at Brize Norton because the kit has yet to be released by Turkey.
With the aircraft yet to begin the near five-hour flight to Istanbul, the equipment will not now arrive in the UK until Tuesday morning at the earliest.
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