A backlog of applications ahead of holidays is being blamed for queues outside a city passport office. People from as far away as London and Chesterfield waited for hours outside the Peterborough office on Monday. HM Passport Office said delays were caused by a backlog of applications after as many as five million people had put off renewing their passport during the pandemic restrictions. People...
My blue passport has arrived – and with it a crushing new sense of our Brexit nightmare
In February, I lost my passport in the stupidest way yet. I was not mugged, pickpocketed or burgled (passports one to three), I did not drop it in a pond (passport four), or lose it in a house move (passport five), I just walked through a station in a bit of a daze, and by the time I got to my platform, it was gone. I tried to self-soothe with the fact that, at least I now had time to renew...