Yet more bad news awaited Southern Rail passengers struggling into London this morning, after a ‘serious incident’ left several diners at London Victoria Station’s ‘Yo Sushi’ needing hospital treatment. According to eye-witnesses, a southbound dish of Ramen Noodle Salad left the belt and collided headlong into a helping of Custard Dorayaki travelling in the opposite direction.  This in turn careened into an Albacore Truffle Ponzu Sashimi, before coming to rest on top of an overturned Chicken Katsu Curry.  Several adjacent dishes of the notoriously-unstable Spicy Pepper...

UK Airport VAT Scam Garners a Wealth of Sensitive Data. Last year’s row over ‘airside’ boarding pass checks on shoppers at UK airports has had a big payoff for the intelligence services. As a retired MI5 officer explained: ‘Most passengers assumed that showing their boarding pass when buying, say, a bottle of water at WHSmith was some kind of security check.  In fact it was simply a ruse to allow the shops to reclaim tax on items sold to those travelling outside the EU.’ ‘However, in the process a huge amount of data has been amassed on which products are going...