Music students from England stuck in Ohio

LOGAN, Ohio (AP) — A central Ohio college is coming to the aid of about 40 music students from England who performed at a local opera house last week but can’t get home due volcanic ash from Iceland hovering over Europe.

The students, ages 16 to 23, attend Havering College and performed a musical featuring Beatles hits at Stuart’s Opera House in Nelsonville near Hocking College.

Director Peter Dayson says the schools are in an exchange program and that the students planned to fly back to England on Sunday.

In a news item on the Havering Web site, Dayson says “Hocking College has offered us basically anything and everything we need in terms of space, money, food, medicines, accommodation ... in short, as much as is humanly possible.”

The Web site says the group has rebooked travel for April 28.