[ British people with foreign partners have rushed to apply for visas so their other half can stay in the UK ahead of a looming change in the immigration rules, top lawyers have revealed. From Thursday, the minimum salary required for a UK resident to sponsor a family member’s visa jumps from £18,600 to £29,000. … Read more
[ Britons looking to get away for the bank holiday weekend and the start of the school holidays have been warned not to travel between 11am and 6pm amid an expected onslaught of Easter getaway traffic. More than 14 million people are set to take to Britain’s roads over the four-day weekend with drivers told … Read more
[ The security of the UK’s borders at ports and airports is being put at risk due to a lack of radios, distractions for staff and “ineffective” use of resources, a damning inspectors’ report has revealed. The report was drawn up by David Neal, who was recently sacked by the Government as the UK’s chief … Read more
[ Police detectives are looking at “potential fraud offences” committed during the Post Office’s Horizon scandal. More than 700 Post Office branch managers were handed criminal convictions after faulty Fujitsu accounting software made it appear as though money was missing from their outlets. Scotland Yard said on Friday evening officers were “investigating potential fraud offences … Read more
[ E-gates that would allow travellers to enter the UK without showing their passport could speed up arrivals queues at airports. A trial of this newer type of e-gates is set to take place at UK airports this year, Phil Douglas, director-general of Border Force, told The Times. Airports in Dubai, Australia and Slovenia are … Read more
[ UK passport holders face lengthy queues for travel to Europe under a new border system that is expected to launch next October. The Entry/Exit System (EES) will see travellers from non-EU third countries hand over sensitive personal data to border authorities and could make millions of euros for IT companies, according to EU Civil … Read more
