FCO SLAMMED OVER BALI WARNINGS

A Government report has criticised the Foreign and Commonwealth Office over the way it communicated Bail travel warnings to the public and travel industry.

The Intelligence and Security Committee report said the FCO’s advice was “not well formatted” and said particular risks got lost in the complexity of the document.

It said: “Routine language is recycled from edition to edition and contains elements of reassurance that produces a confused effect.

“The terrorist threat to British citizens is not clearly identified, not are the sensible precautions that could be taken by them clearly described.”