UK to review airport eye scanners

High-tech eye scanners designed to reduce the time taken for passengers to enter the UK have been scrapped at Birmingham and Manchester airports and closed to anyone who has not already registered, the UK Border Agency (UKBA) said.

The future of the Iris Recognition Immigration System (Iris), which has been criticised for adding to delays rather than cutting queues, is being reviewed and the system has already been scrapped at both Manchester and Birmingham airports.