Crucial identity document being abolished

[[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ian G Batten)]

On Mon, 01 Sep 2003, Clive D. W. Feather wrote:

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> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Roland Perry 
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> >One doesn't normally have to show a passport to get on Eurostar, and by
> >analogy perhaps not on ferries going to the EU (but I've not caught one
> >of them for a *very* long time).
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> In June we used a ferry (well, Seacat) to go to France and come back. We 
> were required to show passports and fill in boarding cards both ways.

I used the Plymouth-Roscoff (and return) this year and vaguely waved
passports on the way on and off going out, and on the way on coming
back.  I don't think anyone official actually opened the passports.  The
checkin people did, I think.  This made a change from having the car
searched and being frisked at Poole in 2002 --- although bizarrely they
only frisked the driver of the cars they searched.

ian