A man has been arrested by counter-terrorism police after a potentially suspicious package was found outside a hospital maternity unit in Leeds. St James’s university hospital declared a critical incident and evacuated patients from the Gledhow wing after the alert on Friday morning. Counter-terrorism police said they had launched an...

A man has pleaded guilty to plotting a terror attack allegedly targeting the police or military. Matthew King, 19, was accused of carrying out surveillance at police stations, railway stations and an British Army barracks in London. At a hearing at the Old Bailey, King, from Wickford in Essex, admitted...