HAMPSHIRE Scouts are set to leave the World Scout Jamboree after extreme heat hit South Korea.

The Scout Association is moving UK scouts to hotels in Seoul after the event - attended by 40,000 people - was thrown into chaos.

Around 4,000 British scouts have attended, including Hampshire members from Eastleigh, Lymington, Winchester and Farnborough.

Around 150 members of Unit 59, The Hampshire Knightingales, left for Seoul from Southampton Airport on Saturday morning.

A Scout Association statement said: "UK Scouts are transferring our young people and adult volunteers from the Jamboree site at SaeManGeum to Seoul.

"We will start moving our people to hotel accommodation over the next two days. As we are the largest contingent, our hope is that this helps alleviate the pressure on the site overall.

"We know that may be a disappointment for some and we will continue the Jamboree experience in Seoul, working with Korean authorities on a programme of activities so our young people still get the most from their time in Korea. Young people will travel home as originally planned from 13 August.

"While we have been on site at the Jamboree, the UK volunteer team has worked extremely hard with the organisers, for our youth members and adult volunteers to have enough food and water to sustain them, shelter from the unusually hot weather, and toilets and washing facilities appropriate for an event of this scale."

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