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  1. British people now make some 65 million overseas trips a year, and some 13 million British national live overseas.

    British consular staff now deal with 3.5 million enquiries and some 85,000 new cases requiring more acute support every year.

    Over the last year, cases dealt with included 4,200 British nationals hospitalised overseas; 3,900 deaths; around 150 cases of child abduction and 250 of forced marriage; and support for almost 6,000 British detainees.

    FCO Posts overseas issued 450,000 full British passports every year, plus 11, emergency passports.

    The FCO issues Travel Advice notices on 217 countries and territories: our travel advice website receives 400,000 visitors a month. Our call centre receives 8,000 calls every month, with flexible arrangements in place to increase capacity to deal with major crises.

  2. Whooh four days I did'nt think they would turn around visa so fast I hope we are as lucky thanks for all the info. Well did your girlfriend enjoy Ireland and the weather ? We have not gone yet and prolly not go now as the visa is up on November 4th 2005 and and I can't be arsed.

    How long did they issue travel visa is the max 3 months for Ireland ? Visa is valid for 3 months from date of issue.I expect she will get 1 month on arrival and then get a further 2 month extension from a local Garda station.

    Do you know if there's any problem flying into Belfast on a UK visa ? Should not be a problem as NI is for some strange reason STILL part of the UK .

    I presume not . we wil stay just north of the border and not risk going south just in case I don't want us to ruin any chance of getting Irish visa.

    Did you have to say much on how you met ? Never came up.

    well thanks for all the advice I must start getting all my details together.

    Best of luck and enjoy.

  3. Mick Visa Requirements:

    Letter of invitation

    Your Recent Bank Balance( 2months old max)

    Her Recent Bank Balance(2 months old max)

    Letter from her Employer stating she will return to work in Bangkok.

    Both you and her Return Flight Itinery Printout(make it for 1/2 weeks ahead so they will rush the process through for you).

    Baht7000 processing fee including DHL delivery to KL and return to Bangkok.

    Make 3 photocopies of ALL above documents.

    3 Passport Photographs(yes three).

    Bring your passport also to Tisco Tower.

    Finally.Both girls in the Consulate are very efficent and speak perfect Gaelic(Engrish).Submit all of the above and be polite and you should not have any problems.

    My GF got her visa for the Republic in 4 days!!!

    Best of luck a chara.

  4. Describing her brother, she added: "He was a loving beautiful gentleman who loved his family. He used to come home with orchids through the airport every month for his mum.

    "He was the best father and brother anyone could wish for."

    Mr Henry had lived in Thailand for five years and made monthly trips home.

    He had a sister, Sheila Roddie, aged 47, who lives in Binley, and a brother, William, aged 40, who lives in Radford.

  5. Village cricket match 'erupted after tosser jibe'

    The tranquillity of a cricket match between village teams was shattered when a player used his bat to fell a schoolboy who had just clean bowled him, a court heard yesterday.

    A melee on the field was followed by further violence in the pavilion as residents of the Cambridgeshire village of Elsworth played host to Cambridge St Giles in August last year. With the home team four wickets down and needing 150 to win, Michael Butt, 32, faced 14-year-old Joshua Fay, a jury at Cambridge Crown Court was told. The teenager took Butt's wicket and, as the batsman walked off, muttered at him.

    Michael and Andrew Butt

    Joshua, whose bowling had suffered at Butt's hands, claimed that he said: "Hit that." According to Butt, he muttered: "Tosser."

    Michael Procter, prosecuting, told the jury that Butt then knocked the boy down with his bat and began raining blows on him as he lay on the pitch. Spectators and other players rushed to separate them and Butt began hitting out at anyone who approached him.

    Andrew Butt, 43, his brother and team-mate who has an artificial leg, weighed in on his brother's side.

    Joshua's father, Edward, who had been watching from his car, ran on to the field, worried about his son's safety.

    Mr Procter said: "Michael Butt had been restrained at this point but was still behaving in an aggressive way when he was confronted by Edward Fay. It is alleged that he broke free and punched and kicked Edward Fay."

    Team-mates eventually ushered the brothers into the pavilion. But Mr Procter said that, once inside, Andrew Butt "pursued and grabbed" Christopher Meddle, the father of another Cambridge St Giles player, and repeatedly punched and kicked him.

    Giving evidence via a video link, Joshua, now 16, said that Michael Butt had "completely lost it". The schoolboy, who plays cricket and rugby for his county, admitted that he had felt a bit frustrated after Butt had "smacked me for a few sixes and things like that". But he denied calling Butt a tosser.

    "I just said 'Hit that' under my breath in celebration," he said. "He turned around and said: 'What did you call me? You called me a tosser.' He hit me with the bat. It wasn't a full swing. It hit me on my lower back. I fell to the ground and the next thing he was on top of me, punching me in the face. He hit me five or six times around my face. It took everyone on the pitch to control him and his brother."

    Lynn Tayton, defending Michael Butt, suggested to Joshua that it was common at all levels of cricket to indulge in "sledging - saying things to put the other team off". She also suggested that members of the Cambridge St Giles team had used terms such as "chavs" and "numpties" to describe their opponents.

    Joshua told her: "The people I play with are not that kind of people. They are respectable people."

    Michael and Andrew Butt, of St Ives, Cambs, deny affray. Michael Butt also denies common assault on Edward Fay and his brother denies common assault on Christopher Meddle and damaging Mr Meddle's rugby shirt.

    At an earlier hearing Michael Butt admitted causing actual bodily harm to Joshua.

    The trial continues.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/core/Content/di...ic11.xml&site=5

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