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Airports to axe rule banning liquids

over 100ml in hand luggage

AIRPORTS could soon ditch
their ban on passengers carrying
liquids over 100ml in hand lug-
gage.
The rule could be scrapped by
2024, the boss of Heathrow Air-
port has said.
Currently, liquids must not ex-
ceed 100ml and have to be carried
Warning over football in a clear plastic bag.
The upcoming change to the
lottery scams rule has been described as ‘a
game-changer’ by airport insid-
ers.
New 3D scanning equipment
FRAUDSTERS are exploiting in- standards over the next month,
terest in the football World Cup to calling the campaign a Scamnesty. will be deployed across UK air-
trick people into replying to scam "By building a fuller picture of ports to negate the need for the
lottery letters. the scams out there, we can stay a over 100ml-ban.
These mailshots incorrectly claim step ahead of the criminals," said Major UK airports have report-
to be affiliated to the event, include Louise Baxter, head of the National edly been given a deadline of sion of the security area in Ter- planned to smuggle explosives
official logos, and ask recipients for Trading Standards Scams Team. mid-2024 to install the high-tech minal 3 which will have more CT through airport security in soft
money to claim a "huge" cash prize. "And as well as sending in their devices. scanners and have a deadline of drink bottles, fresh restrictions
Such rewards are never seen. own scam mail, I'd encourage peo- As well as liquids, laptops mid-2024 from the DfT. By then were put into place.
National Trading Standards said ple to talk about Scamnesty with would no longer have to be re- the normal passenger experience Initially, no liquids at all could
a surge in letters had coincided older friends and relatives. They moved from hand luggage under will be that liquids stay in bags.’ be brought in hand luggage –
with previous major tournaments. are likely to be at the sharp end the new plans. It was in 2006 that limits on the
Officers said they wanted the of the mailings so the intelligence John Holland-Kaye, the chief amount of liquids allowed in car- apart from baby milk, which had
public's help to gather information they can provide is crucial." executive of Heathrow, told The ry-on luggage were introduced, to be tasted by a parent in front
about scams. Scam mail can be sent free of Times: ‘We are slowly rolling when police foiled Britain’s larg- of staff – but these harsh rules
They want people to send any charge to: NTSST, FREEPOST, them [the 3D scanners] out. est terror plot. were eased when passenger num-
scam mail they receive to trading MAIL MARSHALS. ‘We have just started the expan- Seeing that the suspects had bers significantly dwindled.