Can anyone who has departed Heysham in the last couple of days give a heads up with regards to the stop/search/ ID issues from there. Would be good to have a bit of advice thank's.

Was on the 02:00 this morning, had plenty of photo ID with me (bus pass, drivers licence, pilots licence, etc) but there were no specific checks made.

I wasn't stopped by security, but as is normal, many were.

I always carry photo ID on my travels, just in case.

What's the score on taking a gas cooker in my panniers this year?any ideas?

I've taken a small stove loads of times in my panniers and never had an issue, think you have to disconnect it which mine does anyway. once took a calor cylinderi in my gas barbie  (diconnected in the van), got searched and the dummy pointed at it and asked "whats that for?" then he 'found' my empty 5 litre petrol can and asked what that was for then started interrogating me as to whether I had any more empty cans 'hidden' (he'd already searched the van) - you would have thought he'd found some semtex. he got told what a dead he was in anglo saxon.

Same as Zeds question really but for Liverpool. Any more checks than normal happening?

lets face it aslong as the scumbags are out there that think its ok to kill inocent people they dont even know
then i dont mind being searched if it stops another incident like we had last week

(29-05-2017, 11:13 PM)Superbike Wrote: What's the score on taking a gas cooker in my panniers this year?any ideas?

if they see it and your on mananin then definatly you will have to leave the gas bottle

(29-05-2017, 08:54 PM)zedmeister Wrote: Can anyone who has departed Heysham in the last couple of days give a heads up with regards to the stop/search/ ID issues from there. Would be good to have a bit of advice thank's.

if youve got nothing to hide then extra few minutes wont hurt
ive been stopped a few time on arival at douglas always been plesant enough and after a few minutes been on my way

Nothing to hide at all and welcome any search in light of recent terrorist acts, got stopped and searched in 2015 at Heysham as you said very pleasant and took a couple of minutes just wanted to know if anything other than the normal search was happening. I only have my photo card licence as ID.

Same here nowt to hide just wondered if anything had changed with the tightened security.

Sailed on 1st of June at 11.15 . Didn,t see any checks at all . Just checked in and racked up in the lines for boarding

Thanks for the feedback, I was wondering what stage we were at, I'd heard that the soldiers had left Heysham & things were back to normal (ish!), but didn't know whether the port authorities were up to speed.

I got on the rock last night from Liverpool got stoped and surched in Liverpool check panniers and the like. Then when we got off the boat at Douglas my mate was stopped and breathalysed.
All done as nicely as possible iv got no problem with it. But don't get carried away on the boat and have a pint to many

I came back last night on the delayed 17.45 to Heysham ,it left at nine,and took a large rucksack as hand luggage,and got searched,the guy even looked at the contents of my wallet,which was seriously depleted of drink vouchers,coming over at Heysham I had a small bottle of wine confiscated,never once in the 2 searches was I asked for ID.

ID was in connection with the Manchester bomb incident. security levels are now reduced slightly so its back to normal.