Day: August 7, 2018

    Passengers are routinely facing unacceptable two-hour queues at Heathrow Airport's passport control, the boss of British Airways has said. In a letter to The Times newspaper, chief executive Alex Cruz called on Home Secretary Sajid Javid to take action to end the border farce. Tackling lengthy queues, which are significantly worse than elsewhere on the continent, should be a priority over plans for designated lanes for UK passport holders post-Brexit, Mr Cruz argued. Even EEA citizens wait almost an hour. This is unacceptable, yet Nick Jariwalla, the head of Border Force at Heathrow, said recently that things were unlikely to change and it was unreasonable for his team to be expected to meet their targets. Mr Cruz said the west London airport has missed its target...

    Samantha Lewthwaite, dubbed the White widow, was reported to be behind the Kenyan shopping mall massacre in 2013 which The defence secretary, Gavin Williamson, has announced that Britain’s first specialist army training team is being set up to help tackle sexual violence and the use of female suicide bombers in some of the world’s most dangerous countries. The expert unit will be deployed in the coming weeks to east Africa where the Islamist terror group Al-Shabaab has launched brutal attacks on the civilian population and military peacekeepers have sometimes struggled with local cultural sensitivities. The team, which will include female British soldiers, will work on helping local forces understand that, while child soldiers may pose a threat, they are victims of ...

    Theresa May and Nicola Sturgeon are meeting face to face in a Brexit showdown expected to be dominated by increasing predictions of no deal. In crunch talks in Edinburgh, the Prime Minister will claim Brexit can result in a brighter future for the whole UK and is promising a major funding boost for Scotland. But Scotland's First Minister, a fierce opponent of Brexit, is challenging Mrs May to set out her plan B for Brexit and claiming no deal or a blind Brexit is unacceptable. The PM is announcing a £1.2bn city deal for Edinburgh and southeast Scotland, with both the Scottish and UK governments committing £300m towards it. Speaking ahead of her visit to Scotland, she said: Today I have also announced a further £13m for investment in six science centres in the UK, ...