Government Watch: Eurostar

U.K. Border Force Dept: She said lapses included failing to check half a million Europeans arriving on Eurostar trains against a government watch list, according to CTV. May said the risk to Britain had been small since "no one was waved through, everyone had their passports checked" -- but the lapses were nonetheless unacceptable and home Secretary Theresa May said an investigation had found that the U.K. Border Force, which staffs border posts at airports and ports, had "suspended important checks without permission." May said the border force had also suspended fingerprint checks on visa holders without government approval, spent millions on new technologies it did not use and sent reports to the government "that were inaccurate, unbalanced and excluded key information." (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.