British tourists in Jamaica have been told to prepare as the island’s strongest storm on record closes in.

The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) has set up a crisis centre ready to help Britons on the Caribbean island, and the Royal Navy ship HMS Trent is already in the region on stand-by.

Hurricane Melissa will hit Jamaica on Tuesday as a category five storm, the strongest for the island since record-keeping began 174 years ago.

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All of Jamaica’s international airports have been closed until further notice. But around 5,000 British nationals are on the island, reports have said.

Having arrived in Jamaica for a week’s holiday, train driver Andrew Tracey was due to fly back home yesterday but is instead o

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