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hello, im 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 qu...

some breaking news — in the past hour the british tv presenter, holly willoughby, has reacted to phillip schofields 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 ...

wins this years palme dor award at the cannes festival. theres 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 resolvin...

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 cant 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-...