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Arrivals at the border described a scene of ‘absolute bedlam’ today as they lingered in queues for more than four hours while stretched officials lost their cool and lamented: ‘We have not got any more staff!’ Days before a tough hotel quarantine regime is enforced, Heathrow Airport was swamped with passengers trying to enter the … Read more
SAGE warned only mandatory hotel quarantine for all UK travellers would ‘come close’ to to stop new strains entering the country, it has emerged. In a recommendation made on January 21, Government scientists said anything other than a ‘complete closure of borders’ or isolating every visitor in designated facilities would be took weak. SAGE’s unusually frank … Read more
‘It’s a nightmare’: Tom Cruise’s Mission Impossible crew ‘fear whether they’ll be stranded abroad as UK closes borders… after THAT on-set rant’ By Laura Fox For Mailonline Published: 11:27 GMT, 30 January 2021 | Updated: 11:27 GMT, 30 January 2021 Tom Cruise’s Mission Impossible crew have branded production a ‘nightmare’ as they fear being stranded … Read more
France shuts its borders to non-EU countries including Britain for all but essential travel – while ruling out a third national lockdown By Chris Jewers For Mailonline and Afp Published: 21:15 GMT, 29 January 2021 | Updated: 21:16 GMT, 29 January 2021 France will shut its borders to all non-EU countries, including Britain, for all … Read more
Europe’s borders are closing once more with Belgium banning non-essential travel from today, France demanding negative tests from all EU visitors and Germany looking at ways to cut air traffic to ‘almost zero’. With virus deaths still piling up across Europe and governments alarmed by new strains of Covid-19, EU travel restrictions have gone beyond … Read more
Priti Patel claims she ‘wanted to close UK borders in MARCH’ at start of Covid-19 pandemic in leaked recording of Zoom meeting with Conservative Party supporters Priti Patel said in leaked recording the UK should have closed borders earlier She said she was ‘advocate of closing them last March’ when pandemic started Remarks will put … Read more
Thousands of Britons today flew into the UK and were pictured arriving at the country’s airports as they sought to get home before borders slam shut on Monday after all travel corridors were axed. Boris Johnson said on Friday that from 4am on Monday all travel corridors will be suspended and anyone coming to the … Read more
While 2020 should have been a milestone year for Australia Zoo, the Irwins instead marked 50 years of the iconic zoo with financial strain and uncertainty. Bindi Irwin recently admitted her late father Steve’s legacy was almost on the brink of collapse as they struggled to keep the zoo operational amid COVID-19. Now a source … Read more
Ministers are meeting today to thrash out details of the new Covid testing rules for UK borders amid fears people will find it impossible to get screened in some countries, Boris Johnson confirmed earlier this week that a requirement for arrivals to have tested negative will be introduced, amid alarm at the spread of new … Read more
Priti Patel vows to beef up Britain’s borders after Brexit with ‘firmer’ checks on entry to the UK UK police last year accessed international databases 603 million times Under Boris Johnson’s Christmas Brexit deal such access is severely curtailed Home Secretary Priti Patel says she will take back control of Britain’s borders She previously wanted … Read more