PASSPORT CHAOS: Overtime payments to hard-pressed Passport Office workers have doubled following Tory-imposed cuts and chaos, Home Office Minister James Brokenshire revealed yesterday.

The minister admitted to Labour MP David Hanson that overtime payments in the first five months of this year totalled nearly £3.2 million, compared with just over £1.5m in the same period last year.

Last month’s overtime payments soared to £964,742, Mr Brokenshire confessed in a written parliamentary answer.

CHILDCARE: Nursery staff in Leeds will launch a protest today against bosses’ plans to shut a popular college nursery and axe 38 jobs.

Members of the University College Union, Unison, GMB and students will protest from 12 noon at Park Lane campus of Leeds City College.

The college also plans to axe 100 academic jobs — on top of 100 axed last year as well as end education classes for adults in some of the more deprived areas of the city.

RETAIL: More than 750 jobs at lingerie chain La Senza were hanging in the balance yesterday after the British store went into administration for the second time in just over two years.

A corporate rescue team from PricewaterhouseCoopers said it would listen to offers for the 55-store chain, which was rescued by the British arm of an Arabian retail group in 2012.

Marnixheath, which operates the La Senza stores in Britain as well as three Pinkberry frozen yoghurt outlets in London and south-east England, employs 752 people across England, Wales and Scotland.