Libya rescue: UK forces to continue mission

 Libya rescue: UK forces to continue mission: "Further rescue missions are planned to airlift an estimated 300 British nationals still stranded in Libyan desert camps.

Two RAF Hercules flew 150 oil workers, many of them British nationals, to the safety of Malta on Saturday.

Looters are known to operate in the territory south of Benghazi, controlled by opponents of leader Muammar Gaddafi.

Meanwhile, 53 Britons were among 100 on the last government-chartered flight out of Libya to Gatwick on Saturday.

The BBC's Europe editor Gavin Hewitt, who is in Malta, says the RAF flights on Saturday were into an area which was 'relatively safe' because the landing strip had been secured by local militia, and by oil company security.

He says 'there are much more complicated and difficult places where there are still British workers', and rescue plans for them are being worked out.

The Royal Navy frigate HMS Cumberland is also heading back to Benghazi to help with further evacuations.

The Foreign Office has revised upwards its original estimate of the number of British oil workers still in the desert."