Passengers were stuck on a Eurostar train in the Channel Tunnel for two-and-a-half hours after an apparent breakdown of the London to Paris service.

Hundreds of passengers faced festive travel misery after a Eurostar train broke down in the Channel Tunnel leaving them stuck for two-and-a-half hours. The first train of the day left St Pancras International on time at 6.

A Eurostar train was hit by a "technical problem" in the Channel Tunnel, causing a six-hour delay to passengers travelling from London to Paris.

But around an hour into the journey, the Eurostar service broke down in the channel. Gaby Koppel, a television producer told The Independent: ‘We stopped in the tunnel about an hour into the journey,

Hundreds of Eurostar passengers have been evacuated from a Channel Tunnel train after it became stuck for several hours. Almost 800 people were stuck in the tunnel for three hours before being evacuated to Calais.

Travellers heading to Paris on the 6.01am on-time departure from London St Pancras got stuck in the Channel Tunnel about one hour into their journey because of a train fault.