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Children taken ill on Heathrow flight Children from Welsh choir taken ill on Heathrow flight
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Eleven children taken to hospital after they became unwell on flight to Heathrow, says London Ambulance Service Twelve children from a Welsh choir were taken to hospital after they became unwell on a flight to Heathrow.
More to follow. The children from Only Kids Aloud (OKA) sang at a concert in Cape Town, South Africa, with Bryn Terfel on Saturday.
On their flight home some of the children suffered from a "mild form of diarrhoea and vomiting".
Four ambulances from London Ambulance Service and a Hazardous Area Response Team met the Emirates plane carrying the 64 children when they landed.
They took the children to Hillingdon Hospital, London, were they were said to have recovered quickly.
The hospital said it was likely they picked up a bug before they left Cape Town.
London Ambulance Service confirmed they were called at 07:41 BST and checked 60 children aged between 10 and 14 years old.
'Infection'
Bet Davies, from the Wales Millennium Centre, went to South Africa with OKA and was on the flight with the children.
She said: "The ambulance came to check the children over as a precaution to make sure they weren't bringing an infection into the country.
"The children had the most amazing experience on their trip.
"They did two major performances, one on Friday and one on Saturday with Bryn Terfel. They were on a massive high after Saturday night, but on the flight home some of them fell sick and were running to the toilet.
"They are all okay now though and have been discharged from hospital."
The choir, Bryn Terfel and Cape Town Opera's chorus performed a new piece by royal wedding composer Paul Mealor at two concerts at the Artscape Theatre Centre.
It was part of the Africa-UK arts and culture season to mark the 20th anniversary of the end of apartheid rule and the establishment of democracy in South Africa.
Mealor, who was commissioned to write Ubi Caritas for the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge three years ago, wrote the tribute to Nelson Mandela.
OKA was founded by Only Men Aloud's music director Tim Rhys-Evans, and includes children from across Wales.
They are based at Cardiff's Wales Millennium Centre, which has had a 10-year partnership with Cape Town Opera.