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Security information for a safe and easy journey from Stansted Airport this summer.

Help reduce the queues at security control by ensuring that you do not pack prohibited items in your hand luggage or hold baggage.

The following items must not be packed in your hand luggage. They must be placed in your hold baggage. If these items are discovered in your hand luggage they will be confiscated and not returned:

• Scissors (except where both blades are round-ended or less than 3cm).
• Razor blades (razors that have the blade set into a plastic moulding are allowed, but razors that can be opened and the razor blade removed are prohibited).
• Knives with blades of any length.
• Household cutlery (large spoons/tablespoons are NOT permitted; however small teaspoons are allowed).
• Hypodermic needles (unless required for medical reasons, for which proof will be required).
• Tools (including multi-tools and penknives).
• Catapults.
• Corkscrews.
• Walking/hiking poles.
• Toy/replica guns (metal or plastic).
• Sporting bats.
• Darts.
• Billiard, snooker or pool cues.

For more informationon what you can and cannot take and for answers to many of your questions please follow the link London Stansted Airport Limited