The UK is to defer a European-ordered partial lifting of restrictions on the carrying of liquids in airline hand luggage on security grounds. The lifting of the restrictions, which would only apply to passengers transiting UK airports from outside the European Union (EU), had been due on April 29. But Transport Secretary Philip Hammond said that “in the light of the continuing high (security) threat” he was continuing the current liquids regime until the autumn. The April 29 partial lifting of restrictions would have had no effect on the vast majority of British air travelers unless they were flying, for

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