41.   Blunkett said new immigrants would be offered English-language lessons and would be expected to achieve a reasonable command of the language in order to obtain British passports.

42.   Britain, however, allowed Zimbabweans of British descent to keep their British passports.

43.   British police seized a British passport from Grobbelaar when he was arrested in November for allegedly throwing English premier league matches.

44.   British passport holders do not need work visas to work in European Union countries.

45.   But last week Foreign Secretary Robin Cook hinted to a conference of the Dependent Territories Association in London that he was going to give them back their British passports.

46.   But the new Lo Tak-shing has dumped his British passport for a Chinese one.

47.   China twice asked Britain to change its mind, Shen said, but when that failed, China decided to mete out similar treatment to British passport holders.

48.   Confirmation of his identity was uncertain because he had been traveling with a stolen British passport in the name of Paul Douglas Fleming of Liverpool, police said.

49.   Cook has said the government is sympathetic to giving full citizenship to dependents who carry British passports but have no right to live and work in Britain.

50.   CNN reported the man was traveling alone on a British passport.