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Transport operators must record the passport details of people departing the CTA and submit them to UKBF. At St Pancras this is done when Eurostar staff swipe your passport after security and before French immigration. However, you could use different passports to enter and exit the UK (in...

Why would the UK question someone because the EU's system is not fit for purpose? If he is a British citizen, why would they care even if he did overstay in the EU?

Yes that's correct. Sadly I won't be in the UK at that time otherwise I'd be booking onto those services too. However we wouldn't be able to see much anyway with the section of interest scheduled to be traversed at 0524 Sa 28th Nov and 2337 Su 29th Nov. One could hope for a 2+ hour delay on the...

RM definitely knows a 1st class regular stamp is worth more than 2nd class large 100g. I often receive and send items thicker than 5mm using 1st regular stamps. It's not really possible to tell whether they have been treated as 1st or 2nd, since 1st and 2nd items travel in the same bag and only...

Curve on a paid plan gives 1% cashback on transactions outside the Mastercard Europe Zone, which is a bit wider than Europe itself https://help.curve.com/en_gb/1-interregional-cashback-HkKqqk_YA It is a shame that just as Australia is about to get rid of automatically adding surcharges at card...

Sometimes you can pay by debit card and then provide the credit card for guarantee purposes, but staff may be unfamiliar with how to process that.

Contactless would have capped at £39.50 for these and you could also just have paid 2x the contactless fare for Paddington-Sidcup if you didn't want to exit at Dartford. But appreciate doing sums is not the easiest at 5am after 2 nights of not really sleeping...

I took Ember from Glasgow to Fort William last winter and sat right behind the driver. Around Glencoe a notification popped up on his screen saying something to the effect that the battery was depleting faster than expected. As a result the driver switched off the heating and the bus was...

London U4 has one end in Prologis Park 175 used to go into the Ford factory in Dagenham. Not sure if the public could wander around but the "Ladies who bus" took it in and out without going into detail https://londonbusesonebusatatime.blogspot.com/2011/05/number-175-route.html

I don't think this has been suggested in the past 7 pages yet - with a per mile charge, perhaps every vehicle could have a tax-free allowance of say 2500 miles each year. Then people who like to drive abroad can't complain (as much) about non-UK mileage being taxed. People who commute by car...

Did the vote counting record how many preferences flowed from each eliminated candidate to LAB and RFM?

Not sure how this particular point makes it less attractive? Obviously they are expecting many people to use the app so may remove some existing card readers, but everything in that link sounds reasonable.

You start off with a float of £100. You only make one cash sale of £15 all day. You would expect to deposit £115 in the bank - ignoring any bank fees and the cost of going to the bank. If £20 of the £115 is rejected, the bank will credit your account with £95. So your loss is £20. If £50 of...

Finnair is a oneworld airline, unlike Loganair. You can credit AY flights to BA and redeem for AY flights from BA, and vice versa (it's also easier to achieve status using AY than BA anyway), there's no need to transfer Avios over, however the redemption pricing may differ between schemes. Also...

If it's a single local train I will usually have tickets to the train's destination ready. If it's a long-distance train I tend to just prepare to show the ticket valid at the point I'm inspected. But it gets complicated if you have tickets A-B + B-D and you are travelling A-C (i.e. break of...