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Your support makes all the difference.A woman who fractured her spine in three places while on honeymoon in Corfu arrived back in Britain today.
Carrie Dudbridge, 27, fell up to 30ft from a hotel balcony on the Greek island last Sunday.
Her husband Michael, 29, from Lewisham, south-east London, received donations from various sources to raise the £16,000 needed to fly his wife home as they did not have travel insurance.
The couple, who got married on July 31, thought a European Health Insurance Card (EHIC) would cover their expenses if they had an accident, but it does not cover the cost of air ambulance repatriation.
Mrs Dudbridge, a primary school secretary in Lewisham, fell from the balcony of the couple's first-floor hotel room.
Mediaviation, which provides private air ambulance medical flight services, was flying from Oxford Airport today to Corfu, returning Mrs Dudbridge to Biggin Hill airport in Kent.
A spokesman for Biggin Hill said: "She arrived safely at 4.30pm and has been taken by land ambulance to a hospital, I don't know which one."
Mediaviation had no immediate comment tonight.
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