Tracking Brits.  The recent Ukraine v England football match (see 9-10 October) has focused attention on how we can best provide assistance to British nationals living in and travelling to Ukraine.  It's a curious paradox that, as it has become easier to register with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, fewer and fewer people are doing it, at least in Ukraine.  At the latest count we had only 40 British nationals registered with the Kyiv embassy.  This may reflect the fact that British nationals living in or travelling to Ukraine feel pretty safe and don't therefore feel it's worth giving us their details.  But modern technology means it's never been easier to register.  And as the flyer for the registration system, called "LOCATE", points out: "if we can't find you, we can't help you."

So how do you register?  All you have to do is go to www.fco.gov.uk/travel and click on LOCATE (there's a little a picture of an aeroplane flying over a globe).  You then get a new page with several links to the "online registration form".  A couple of the football fans I spoke to Dnipropetrovsk said that they signed up to LOCATE because they did a lot of travelling.  So my key message is, if you're a British national living in or travelling to Ukraine, please sign up on LOCATE.  My goal is to at least double the number of people we have registered in the next six months, so please help me achieve it.