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 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

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

Priti Patel claims she ‘wanted to close UK borders in MARCH’

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

Australia Zoo ‘isn’t out of the woods yet’ as closed borders mean NO international visitors

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 meet to thrash out details of Covid test system for UK borders

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

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