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...
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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...
A Leeds man who prevented a potential terrorist attack outside St James’ Hospital in Leeds was today (Wednesday, March 25) presented with the George Medal for bravery by His Majesty King Charles III. Nathan Newby G.M., age 35, intervened to prevent clinical support worker Mohammed Farooq from bombing the hospital...
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...
Four men suspected of carrying out surveillance on the Jewish community have been arrested on suspicion of spying for Iran, the Metropolitan Police has said. The investigation relates to the surveillance of locations and individuals in the London area. Officers arrested one Iranian and three dual British/Iranian nationals,...
American forces have killed the leader of an Iranian assassination squad targeting Donald Trump, said Pete Hegseth, US secretary of defence as he gave an update on the Middle East conflict, An Iranian assassination squad ‘attempted to kill Donald Trump’, the US Secretary of War has claimed. Pete...
The partner of Labour MP Joani Reid has been arrested on suspicion of spying for China along with two others following a Counter Terrorism Policing investigation. Detectives detained three men earlier today on suspicion of assisting Chinese intelligence services contrary to the National Security Act. Ms Reid’s husband...
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