Home Office official in charge of protecting UK borders gets £13,000 bonus plus his £145,000 salary

Home Office official in charge of protecting UK borders gets £13,000 bonus on top of his £145,000 salary despite record number of migrants crossing the Channel Glyn Williams earns £145,000-a-year and received a £13,000 bonus for 2019-20 He currently works as the director general of Migration and Borders 1,892 migrants crossed the Channel in 2019, … Read more

Home Office official in charge of protecting UK borders gets £13,000 bonus plus his £145,000 salary

Home Office official in charge of protecting UK borders gets £13,000 bonus on top of his £145,000 salary despite record number of migrants crossing the Channel Glyn Williams earns £145,000-a-year and received a £13,000 bonus for 2019-20 He currently works as the director general of Migration and Borders 1,892 migrants crossed the Channel in 2019, … Read more

What Phuket, Thailand, looks like now after Covid-19 closed borders

Devastating footage shows derelict shopping malls and empty beaches at one of Thailand‘s most iconic tourism destinations, as the nation’s economy is ravaged by the pandemic. Thailand banned virtually all tourists from entering the country in April 2020 to curb the spread of Covid, but the impact had a catastrophic impact on the tourist-driven economy. … Read more

Cyprus to open borders to vaccinated UK holidaymakers from 1 May

Cyprus has announced that it will throw open its borders to British holidaymakers who have been fully vaccinated from May 1. Inoculated Britons will be free to enter the country without needing to have a negative Covid test or quarantine, the Cypriot tourism ministry said on Thursday.  Officials are looking into ways for Britons to … Read more

Cyprus throws open its borders to British holidaymakers

Cyprus has announced that it will throw open its borders to British holidaymakers who have been fully vaccinated from May 1. Inoculated Britons will be free to enter the country without needing to have a negative Covid test or quarantine, the Cypriot tourism ministry said on Thursday.  Officials are looking into ways for Britons to … Read more

BEDLAM at the borders! Heathrow arrivals queue for FOUR hours

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 issues stark warning to No10 over coronavirus variants and quarantine hotels, borders

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

Tom Cruise’s Mission Impossible crew ‘fear whether they’ll be stranded abroad as UK closes borders’

‘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

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

Borders go back up in Europe with quarantines and compulsory tests

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