New security policy ?
Earlier today flew out of Gatwick. I was wearing leather shoes which contain small metal nails to attach the heel to the shoe so failed the arch and had to go for the X ray machine and manual hand search.
Security staff seemed insistent that *everything* including polymer banknotes and even used tissues covered in snot had to go through the X-ray machine.
I don't recall this policy being so tight before - or at least it wasn't when I flew out of Stansted about 3 weeks ago.
Is there something new at Gatwick or have they just been told by the police to be more strict because of a one-off bit of intelligence ?