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Jacob Rees-Mogg defends axeing 91,000 civil servant jobs and pledges to bring more staff to North East

The minister was in Newcastle on Thursday and also spoke to ChronicleLive about the relocation of thousands of local HMRC jobs to Newcastle city centre

Chronicle Live

Data scientists invents device to beat ten week passport application queues

Data scientist Dr Michael Hodge has come up with a way to help Brits desperate to get a new passport and travel abroad this summer despite the lengthy Passport Office queues

Daily Mirror

Granddad separated from his family for almost four years spends six months battling to get passport

Chris Nathanael, 62, applied to the Passport Office for a new passport back in January

Chronicle Live

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I’m desperate after being without a UK passport for 12 weeks

As an interpreter the delay means I cannot work abroad

The Guardian - UK

'I'm furious' - Cramlington mum who fears she may lose family holiday slams Passport Office

Christine and Jeff Pogson had planned to take their youngest son to Lanzarote on July 7

Chronicle Live

Passport Office fielding 3,000 applications every day as TDs demand answers on backlog

"My advice to people would be to forget about paper applications and they should no longer be advisable and applications should be online."

Irish Mirror

Newcastle teen's six-month passport battle leaves her fearing she will miss first holiday

Lucy Stuart plans to travel to Portugal with four friends to celebrate the end of their A Levels - but she is facing a race against time

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Holidaymakers given update on passport delays ahead of summer holidays

The government has recently changed from a three week target to 10 weeks for people needing a new travel document

Wales Online

Nurse 'inconsolable' at thought mum could miss her wedding due to passport delays

Ashleigh Jenkins, from Bridgend has worked for NHS Wales for six years and has been looking forward to marrying her childhood sweetheart Matthew Jenkins for years – especially after having to postpone their special day twice due to Covid regulations

Daily Mirror

A&E nurse devastated her mum can't attend her wedding as passport doesn't arrive

Ashleigh Jenkins will be gutted if her mum can't attend her wedding next week but it's becoming increasingly unlikely that her passport will arrive in time

Wales Online

Summer of discontent as UK hit by new Covid wave, strike chaos and rising prices

The threat of the biggest industrial action to hit Britain since 1926 is looming amid a record wave of energy price hikes which has stoked fears echoing those during the 1978-79 'winter of discontent'

Daily Mirror

Passport backlog: Karin Smyth MP demands apology for 'chaos'

The Bristol South MP said families summer holidays have been put at risk due to backlogs

Bristol Post

Money Saving Expert issues passport advice urging holidaymakers to know their rights

Money Saving Expert, founded by Martin Lewis, have issued important advice for anyone who needs to renew their passport and have holidays booked this summer as Home Office warns of possible delays.

Glasgow Live

Tory minister refuses to apologise for 'shambolic' passport delays

More than 35,000 people have been left waiting longer than 10 weeks to receive a new passport

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Wales Online

Passport Office staff 'facing all-time low morale due to backlog pressure', MPs told

A Labour MP said the Government had 'failed to prepare' for an increase in applications

The Independent UK

Priti Patel attacks Labour MP for ‘futile and cheap’ passport question

Afzal Khan had challenged Boris Johnson’s assertion that ‘everybody is getting their passport within four to six weeks’

The Guardian - UK

Passport Office charged £588 – but we got nothing as a result

We tried to book face-to-face appointments which were all ‘gone’ … but it still took four payments

Belfast Live

NI team captain faces anxious wait to compete in Dance World Cup due to Irish passport delay

Halle Ramsey, 14, is hoping to compete alongside her team mates at the event in Spain.

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Daily Mirror

Passport Office backlog leaves tens of thousands of Brits waiting LONGER than 10 weeks

Ministers have admitted 1.4% of the 250,000 applications per week are not being processed within 10 weeks - despite Boris Johnson's 'nonsense claims' that they're all getting done within six

Daily Mirror

Boris Johnson threatens civil servants with forced redundancy in 91,000 job cuts

A leaked memo also says some government work will be 'deprioritised' as Whitehall departments are told to draw up plans for cuts of 20%, 30% or 40% by 2025

Manchester Evening News

“I clearly cut too close to the bone” - Priti Patel accuses Manchester MP of ‘scaremongering’ over passport delays

Afzal Khan received a letter from The Home Secretary at 10.30pm after raising the matter at Prime Minister’s Questions.

Edinburgh Live

Where you can travel without a passport this summer as application delays continue

The Passport Office issued a warning of a ten-week processing times for passport applications - if you don't have one this summer, not to worry, you can still getaway.

Dublin Live

Passport Office announces new measures to clear processing backlog

540,000 passports have been issued by the Passport Office so far this year

Liverpool Echo

Singer's anxious wait outside passport office ahead of opera audition

Charlotte was offered the chance to attend a casting call in Germany

Daily Mirror

'Heartbroken' woman missed dad's funeral despite dozens of calls to Passport Office

Kim Hibbs applied for an emergency passport through the Passport Office but wasn't sent documents meaning she had to grieve alone and thousands of miles away from her family

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