Anxious time for Grimsby-area folk currently working or on holiday in Middle East

                                             

There are reckoned to be 300,000 UK citizens currently working or on holiday in the Gulf states (map: Wikimedia Commons)

THE flare-up in the Middle East has created worry for dozens of Grimsby-area folk currently working or on holiday in the region.

There are deadly missiles in the sky, and the situation will only get more dangerous if Iran and its allies continue to expand the conflict.

One member of Grimsby and Cleethorpes RSPB Group is on a fortnight’s birding holiday with a wildlife tour company in Oman.

There have only been reports of two drone strikes - both on Oman's commercial port of Duqm - but the UK Foreign Office is urging Britons not to go with 100km of the city of Salalah, the designated location of the last four days of the holiday.

Because airspace has been closed, many Britons wanting to fly home may have to wait longer than intended.

Meanwhile, in North East Lincolnshire  as elsewhere, consumers are waiting to ascertain the extent, if any, of the conflict on fuel prices and imported fruit, vegetables and other foodstuffs.