hello, i m lucy grey. a home office source has told the bbc that e gates are starting to work again at uk airports. a nationwide issue, which started on friday evening, has resulted in long queues at passport control. the bbc understands the gates will be switched on in the busiest spots first and that the it issue has now been resolved. graham satchell has the latest. gatwick airport, described by one passenger today as an utterjoke. this is manchester, where again there were huge queues for passport control. and at heathrow, arriving passengers were forced to wait more than three hours. than three hours. there was absolutely than three hours. there was absolutely chaos than three hours. there was absolutely chaos at - than three hours. there was| absolutely chaos at passport control, i waited something like 2.5 hours to get out of the airport. this is when scenting at luton airport. this is when scenting at luton airort. . , , airport. already been in the queue now f
some breaking news in the past hour the british tv presenter, holly willoughby, has reacted to phillip schofield s admission to a relationship with a younger employee, saying she is hurt. on friday, mr schofield resigned from itv saying he had lied to cover up the relationship, which he described as unwise, but not illegal . itv has said it investigated rumours of the relationship but both repeatedly denied it. our correspondent, katharine da costa, has more on this story. so what has holly willoughby been saying? she willoughby been saying? has been responding to d that she has been responding to do now is that philip schofield had had a younger man on the show, this morning, in 2020. in a statement on her instagram account, holly said, it has taken time to process this news. when reports of this relationship first surfaced, i asked phil if it was true and he told me it was not. it has been a very hurtful to now found out that this was a live. remind us how a big a name
wins this year s palme d or award at the cannes festival. there s been anger today over hours of delays at airports in the uk where passport e gates were not working. the disruption, which began on friday night, had been due to an it issue. the situation has now been resolved. in a statement, the home office said that following a technical border system fault, all e gates are now operating as normal. it went on to thank travellers who were impacted and staff for their work in resolving the issue. graham satchell has been looking at the impact on passengers. gatwick airport described by one passenger today as an utterjoke. these scenes were repeated at airports across the uk. this is manchester, where again there were huge queues for passport control. and at heathrow, arriving passengers were forced to wait more than three hours. we also had one passenger that fainted. this is wayne fenton at luton airport. already been in the queue now forabout 1.5 hours, in fact nearly two
about what those systems might be. but clearly security at the border is paramount and we cannot let anybody through the border unless they have been properly checked, even though vilhete 99.99% is perfectly genuine, we can t afford to take that risk. the alternative fallback strategy is to push everybody through the manual controls where officers have the systems to do the manual checks there. but we do rely very much on these e gates, critically at dizzee holiday paydays like this. i these e-gates, critically at dizzee holiday paydays like this.- holiday paydays like this. i heard somethin: holiday paydays like this. i heard something like holiday paydays like this. i heard something like 60-70% - holiday paydays like this. i heard something like 60-70% of - holiday paydays like this. i heard - something like 60-70% of passengers something like 60 70% of passengers are processed through the e gates. art the ports too on the question mark they were probably an inquiry after this to
comes into the country, whether via an e gate or via an officer, has to be thoroughly checked against systems. i can only assume that there was some connectivity issue between the e gates and the home office systems. i obviously can t go into details about what those systems might be. but clearly security at the border is paramount and we cannot let anybody through the border unless they have been properly checked, even though we know 99.99% of traffic is perfectly genuine, we can t afford to take that risk. the alternative fallback strategy is to push everybody through the manual controls where officers have the systems to do the manual checks there. but we do rely very much on these e gates, partuclarly at busy at busy holiday like this. i heard something like 60 80% of passengers are processed through the e gates.