I have made no secret of my disdain for the joke that manifests itself as "security" in the UK. Now I have hope that things are going to improve.
2 weeks ago I was SLF out of EMA, in uniform, first thing in the morning rush. Put my bag through the scanner and the operator brought it to a grinding halt, pointing his finger at the screen. "Whats that?" as he was pointing to my two mini maglites and glasses case. A gentleman of a few years more than I was standing behind the operator - he took one look at the screen and said "thats a couple of maglites and glasses case". He then had a quick conversation with me about how useful he found the mini maglites before he had been made redundant as an engineer. Nice guy, professional, polite and friendly. It is just a crying shame that they can't all be like that.
RIX