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This section holds news items from April 2006 onwards.
Monday 18th September 2006
Careless youngsters are putting their passports at risk, the Identity and Passport Service (IPS) warned today. Ask a student where their mobile phone, iPod or cheque book is and they can probably tell you immediately, but when it comes to valuable documents, new research reveals many of them would...
Thursday 24th August 2006
Britons cherish their iPods, jewellery and mobile phones more than their passports according to the latest research conducted for the Identity and Passport Service (IPS). Despite the fact that over half of those surveyed believed that passports were worth more than £500 to criminals on the black market,...
Monday 24th July 2006
Fees for the biometric ePassport, the most secure passport ever produced by the UK, were published today, as the Identity and Passport Service (IPS) announced that over a million ePassports have now been issued. The new fees will come into effect from 5 October 2006. This completes a two-stage fee...
Thursday 20th July 2006
Over 250,000 UK Passports lost or stolen each year. As the holiday season kicks off, the Identity and Passport Service (IPS) is warning British holidaymakers to keep a close watch on their passports. In 2005 over 286,000 British passports were reported lost or stolen, of which over 90,000 were reported...
Monday 12th June 2006
With only six weeks to go until the school holidays and the great summer holiday exodus, the Identity and Passport Service (IPS) is calling on all parents and other summer holidaymakers to check now that their passports are in order. Every year people risk being unable to go on holiday because they...
Friday 28th April 2006
With the football World Cup kicking off on 9 June, it is not only Sven-Goran Eriksson who should be planning ahead for the tournament. English football fans intending to travel to Germany are being warned by the Identity and Passport Service (IPS) to apply for or renew their passport in plenty of time,..
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