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Cancer woman stuck by XL collapse Hope for stranded XL cancer woman
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A woman dying from cancer who went on a last trip to Egypt has been stranded by the collapse of holiday firm XL. A terminally-ill cancer patient who was stranded on a last trip to Egypt by the collapse of holiday firm XL is set to return in the early hours of Wednesday.
Cherry Dodgson, from Wells in Somerset, said she had also been threatened with arrest by the hotel where she is staying unless she pays a £1,400 bill. Cherry Dodgson, 49, from Somerset, was threatened with arrest by hotel bosses, unless she paid a £1,400 bill.
The 49-year-old is in the final stages of lung cancer and had cashed in her life-savings for the holiday to Sharm el-Sheikh with family and friends. She is in the final stages of lung cancer and was on vacation in Sharm el-Sheikh with family and friends.
The Civil Aviation Authority said arrangements had been made to fly them back to Bristol International Airport.
Holiday ruined
Speaking from her hotel in Sharm el-Sheikh, she said the hotel had put them under pressure to pay the £1,400 bill and had become "quite hostile".
"They now say, you don't pay, you don't leave. If you try to leave, you will be arrested and put in jail," she said.
"This was supposed to be my final holiday with my family before I die and it has been ruined.
"It has been absolutely horrendous, physically and mentally I feel worse than I ever have. I'm really not well at all but all I want to do is get home.
Mrs Dodgson has been wrongly charged by the hotel and we will be trying to organise a refund of the money before she leaves CAA spokesman
"We have spent the last four days trying to pull together the money to get out of here by negotiating with people and calling the banks in England."
Her daughter Shani Winfield said it had put her mother under stress.Her daughter Shani Winfield said it had put her mother under stress.
We're trying to scrape enough cash to get out of here Cherry Dodgson
"Mum has taken a turn for the worse," she said."Mum has taken a turn for the worse," she said.
"Anything like this is emotionally draining for a healthy person but my mum is poorly so it is a whole lot worse.""Anything like this is emotionally draining for a healthy person but my mum is poorly so it is a whole lot worse."
Mrs Dodgson has had five rounds of chemotherapy and is due to have radiotherapy when she returns home to stop the cancer spreading to her brain.Mrs Dodgson has had five rounds of chemotherapy and is due to have radiotherapy when she returns home to stop the cancer spreading to her brain.
Speaking from her hotel in Sharm el-Sheikh, she said the hotel was putting them under pressure to pay the £1,400 bill. Her son Alan Collins, from Bristol, said: "We have spoken to so many people at the CAA and it has not been easy to get consistent advice.
'Quite hostile' "The CAA have said all along that people should not be charged extra but it hasn't stopped the hotel from demanding more money to the extent that they felt they had no choice but to hand it over."
"We haven't got this sort of money," she said. The CAA said that Mrs Dodgson should not have had to pay any more money to the hotel and that they would be seeking a refund on her behalf.
"Since then, they've become quite hostile. They now say, you don't pay, you don't leave. If you try to leave, you will be arrested and put in jail. We're trying to scrape enough cash to get out of here." A spokesman for the CAA said: "None of the XL passengers have been stranded, we are bringing all of them home.
Her son Alan Collins, from Bristol, said he hoped she would get on one of three flights to Heathrow or Gatwick on Tuesday night. "Mrs Dodgson has been wrongly charged by the hotel and we will be trying to organise a refund of the money before she leaves today.
The Civil Aviation Authority had said XL customers should be able to stay in their holiday accommodation which would be paid for by the company's administrators. "If not, she will receive a refund when she gets back to the UK."
But it has now said it is too early to say whether XL's bond of £42m from the Air Travel Organisers Licensing (Atol) scheme will cover the repatriation and refund costs of the 30,000 people stranded abroad.