Re: Sunday Telegraph: Airport-style security checks to be introduced at mainline rail stations

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Roland Perry <roland@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[snip]
>
> The public was told that all ports had been alerted, and there were red
> faces all round when it transpired that this chap had fled via EuroStar.
> Either they forgot to notify Waterloo Station, and forgot there were no
> British officials there... or more likely they notified the French and
> the French didn't perform. (That's not Xenophobic, by the way, merely a
> statement of what happened).

It is xenophobic, you have no evidence that 'more likely they notified the
French and the French didn't perform'. You don't even have any evidence that
there weren't any British officials there at the time. The only /official/
comment on the matter is that sometimes the British passport desks are not
manned.

Do you know how they knew he left on Eurostar?

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