Queues as electronic passport gate technology fails at UK airports

Passengers waited more than three hours for passport checks on Tuesday, as the country's 270 electronic gates malfunctioned

Thousands of passengers were left waiting in queues for more than three hours at airports, on Tuesday evening, after a nationwide failure of the electronic passport gate technology system.

Nearly all major British airports were affected as the country's 270 e-gates, the automated facial recognition systems at the border, were closed for more than four hours.