The Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre (JTAC) has today (30 April 2026) raised the UK National Threat Level from SUBSTANTIAL, meaning an attack is likely, to SEVERE, meaning an attack is highly likely in the next six months. The increase in threat comes following yesterday’s stabbing in Golders Green in North London, but it is not solely a result of...
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Police say incident in Dunmurry in which no one was hurt shows ‘murderous intent still exists’ in paramilitaries. “Murderous intent and capability” still exists within paramilitaries in Northern Ireland, officers have said after a car exploded outside a police station on the outskirts of Belfast. Detectives said they...
A man has been arrested on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts by detectives investigating a string of attacks on Jewish sites in London. The 37-year-old was arrested at an address near Barnstaple, Devon, on Sunday, the Metropolitan Police said. The Met Police added that 26 people have now been arrested...
Russian figures are calling for Vladimir Putin to blow up Westminster Bridge in revenge for British drones “destroying a Russian-held crossing in a Ukrainian operation”. Spectacular footage showed the moment of the explosion on the Konka, a tributary of the River Dnipro. The strike was in March last year...
Residents have been evacuated with a town in lockdown after an “extremely serious” security alert. Police have closed roads in in Lurgan, County Armagh, this morning following an alert on Church Place. Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) MP Carla Lockhart said a pizza delivery van was reportedly hijacked in...
A man and a woman have been arrested in connection with an investigation into terrorist financing. Counter Terrorism Policing South East said it had arrested a 50-year-old man and a 35-year-old woman from Oxford. The force said the pair had been held on suspicion of arranging funds for the purpose...
A 33-year-old American man from Leeds has been charged with eleven terrorism offences following an investigation by Counter Terrorism Policing North East. Jason Symons is charged with: Nine counts of collect a record of information likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism, contrary...
An attack on four Jewish community ambulances in Golders Green has shocked the nation as counterterrorism police are investigating the incident in northwest London. The incident is being treated as an antisemitic hate crime by the Metropolitan Police, but not as terrorism at this stage, although counterterrorism police are...
A Nazi-obsessed teenager who tried to kill a stranger with an axe begged a friend to kill all Jews and Muslims in Britain, a court has heard. Alina Burns, then 18, attacked Iranian Kurd Mohammed Mahmoodi, 27, while he was stood outside a barber shop with a friend in...
Counter-terrorism police are leading the investigation into an arson attack on four Jewish community ambulances outside a synagogue in north London overnight. Israel fears that Iran may have been behind the anti-Semitic hate crime in Golders Green after a new extremist group backed by Tehran appeared to claim responsibility...
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