https://www.counterterrorism.police.uk/news/serving-member-of-the-british-army-jailed-for-explosives-and-firearms-offences/   14 Oct 2026   A serving member of the British Army has been jailed for the possession of explosives and firearms for terrorist purposes.   Mark Broadhurst (04/05/1998), of Scott Close, Chesterfield, was sentenced at Sheffield Crown Court on Wednesday, October 14, following a week-long hearing in June...

Frank Gardner, BBC Security Correspondent and Adam Goldsmith, BBC News 13 Oct 2026, 13:00 BST   MI5 is devoting more resource to countering state threats than during the Cold War, the head of the intelligence service has said, as he labelled Russia “aggressor number one”.   Sir Ken McCallum warned...

Vicky Wong 12 Oct 2026 Political figures who are not currently MPs will be given police support, the home secretary has announced.   Shabana Mahmood told MPs there was “insufficient protection” for those serving in public life and that the new announcement will cover peers, former MPs and party spokespeople....

Joe Couglan, BBC News 10 Oct 2026, 16:56   King Charles III has warned of the challenges disinformation and other “hostile online activity” pose to trust and security in the digital age.   The comments, made in a letter to the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) to mark its 10th...

Helen Burchell, BBC News Cambridgeshire  8 October 2026, 16:00 BST Two Latvian men have been arrested under the National Security Act after a fence was breached at an RAF base in Cambridgeshire.   The alert was raised when a Ministry of Defence Police (MDP) security patrol at RAF Molesworth identified...

By Cachella Smith. BBC News  8 October 2026, 08:18 BST A Royal Navy service member has been charged with spying for an unnamed foreign country, police have said.   Teddy Young, 24, from Bedfordshire, has been charged with offences under the National Security Act (NSA) including an allegation of obtaining...

Henry Moore, BBC News 6 October 2026, 13:23   A 22-year-old British national has been arrested on suspicion of preparation of terrorist acts in connection with an incident close to RAF Fairford, counter-terror police said.   He was arrested in Westminster, London, on Tuesday as part of the investigation into...

BBC News 5 October Violent material was still available online two weeks after being reported in more than 80% of cases, a review for the Southport Inquiry has found.   The hearing was told a report examining the ‘real-world accessibility’ of violent content and weapons sales online found concerning material...

By Sean Seddon, BBC News Published 5 October, 14:00 BST A man who tried to break into the Israeli embassy in London to carry out a knife attack has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 20 years.   Abdullah Albadri was carrying two knives when he attempted...

By Olivia Ireland, BBC News 4 October, 12:59 The daughter of murdered MP Sir David Amess says politicians are still at risk and questioned if anything has changed five years after her father’s death.   Katie Amess told the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg what happened to her father “wasn’t...