From October, passengers will have to arrive at St Pancras at least two hours before departure to have their photographs and fingerprints taken
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n those joyful early years, you could turn to your amour in the morning and suggest popping over to Paris for lunch. Turn up at Waterloo — later St Pancras — board a Eurostar and arrive at Maxim’s in time for an aperitif. No longer. From October, each passenger will have to arrive at St Pancras at least two hours before departure and use the time to queue up at booths to have their photographs and fingerprints taken and then queue again for immigration and security checks by both French and British officials. Brexit has certainly put a damper on spontaneous trips abroad.
The new burdensome regulations come into force — some months later than planned, thanks to French lobbying to avoid delaying visitors to
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