Girl's smile costs family £3000 holiday

A couple had to scrap a £3,000 family holiday after their youngest daughter’s passport photograph was rejected — because her teeth were showing.

When they went to the Passport Office in Peterborough, Cambs, on Monday afternoon officials said their machine would not accept Alys’s photograph.



Because Alys’s teeth were clearly visible the photograph was not acceptable.

A Home Office spokesman said last night: “The new biometric passports carry a scan of the holder’s face. In this instance the machine which takes the biometric image would have rejected the girl’s photo because her mouth was open.”