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Passengers travelling through Heathrow airport next week have been warned they may have to queue for up to 12 hours when immigration officers go on strike.
Heathrow's operating officer Normand Boivin warned: "Modelling of the impacts of strike action on passenger flows at Heathrow show that there are likely to be very long delays of up to 12 hours to arriving passengers.
"The delays at immigration are likely to be so long that passengers could not be safely accommodated within the terminals and would need to be held on arriving aircraft...
...Civil servants have been approached to help man the borders next Wednesday when up to 18,000 immigration officials are expected to take part in a public sector walkout.
The UK Border Agency has also asked staff working in embassies and high commissions in South Africa, India and Russia to return to Britain to help with cover for their striking colleagues.
Ministers have condemned the planned strike over public sector pensions which could see two million workers stay away from work on November 30.
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