Ebola screening at Heathrow is blasted as 'a joke' on first day as passengers arriving from Africa reveal: 'We could have walked straight through'

Britain's Ebola screening plans at London's Heathrow descended into chaos on its first day as passengers flying to the UK from high risk countries revealed the checks are not compulsory. Travellers arriving (Clive Patterson, top, Sorious Samura, left, and Gina Jere, right) branded the system a 'complete joke'. It comes as health secretary Jeremy Hunt said the epidemic could be as deadly as Aids.