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Remote island gets new airport but at a hefty cost

St. Helena, a remote volcanic outcrop in the South Atlantic, has welcomed its first commercial flight. As Jacob Greaves reports, the mammoth engineering feat costing 285 million pounds ($378 million) of British taxpayer money nearly didn't happen.