31.   Gone are the security guards who checked the bags of people entering the Castlecourt shopping mall.

32.   Hard-sided luggage provides the best cushioning for belongings if you plan to check your bags at the airport, packing pros say.

33.   He always checks his bags because he takes books, magazines and work, heavy items he says he has no wish to carry through an airport.

34.   He also leaned over in the back seat, as if checking his bags.

35.   He said he was asked to check a bag by hand but refused, because he wanted to establish that the X-ray machine was faulty.

36.   I avoid checking bags on flights, so that makes it impossible to carry anything that bothers the people who cluster around airport X-ray machines.

37.   I asked him whether I should check my bags with the skycaps outside or wait in the much longer lines inside.

38.   In addition, carry-on bags are checked thoroughly instead of being given a once-over.

39.   In one case, the paper said, reporters were able to board the train at Waterloo Station in London without having their bags checked or X-ray screened.

40.   It almost forces you to check a bag.