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Joy as 'world's most useless airport' opens

One of humanity’s most isolated outposts joined the 21st century on Saturday when the British island of St Helena, home to 'the world’s most useless airport', welcomed its first commercial flight.

As the inaugural plane from Johannesburg touched down on the forbidding volcanic outcrop in the middle of the south Atlantic, the travel and history buffs on board clapped and cheered.

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