The mother of a Manchester Arena bomb victim has blasted the 55-year-old jail term handed out to Hashem Abedi. Charlotte Hodgson’s daughter Olivia, 15, died after Salman Abedi who detonated a suicide bomb in the foyer of Manchester Arena at 10.31pm on May 22 2017. Salman’s brother Hashem Abedi is expected to die in jail after … Read more
A nuclear power plant has been evacuated after a dangerous chemical was discovered. Bomb disposal experts cleared part of the Sellafield site in Cumbria after organic peroxide was found during a routine inspection yesterday. The sprawling station has been shut down until the chemical can be safely removed from the Magnox Reprocessing Plant. Bosses said … Read more
Saturday marks the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II but for many in Japan August 6 remains a more important date. On that day in 1945 between 90,000 and 146,000 people died in Hiroshima after the city was hit by an atomic bomb. The US bomb, ‘Little Boy,’ the first nuclear weapon … Read more
Breaking: Bomb squad swoop on Norfolk beach after ‘unexploded device’ is found in car park Device found at beach car par at Horsey Gap, north of Great Yarmouth, today Norfolk Police have closed off car park and have advised people to avoid area They say this follows reports of an ‘unexploded device’ found in the … Read more
United Airlines flight at Newark Airport is searched by K9 units after ‘a passenger made a bomb threat on board’ and was taken to a hospital A United Airlines flight was searched on the tarmac at Newark Liberty Airport Sunday after a passenger made a bomb threat, reports suggest An image of the plane posted … Read more
United Airlines flight at Newark Airport is evacuated on the tarmac after ‘a passenger made a bomb threat on board’ A United Airlines flight was forced to evacuate on the tarmac at Newark Liberty Airport Sunday after a passenger made a bomb threat, reports suggest An image of the plane posted on Twitter shows a … Read more
Bomb squad rush to city centre as area is evacuated after magnet fisherman pulls suspected explosive device out of river Rusty object believed to be an explosive device pulled from River Aire in Leeds Large cordon was placed around the area and nearby businesses evacuated West Yorkshire Police later confirmed ‘shell-like’ object is an old … Read more
Danish fighter jets are scrambled to intercept Ryanair flight after ‘bomb threat’ is left on flight from London to Oslo – as British man, 51, is arrested Flight from Stansted to Oslo was escorted by Danish fighters due to bomb scare Comes after crew found a threatening note while plane was in the air Police … Read more
Seventy-five years ago today, a group of physicists, engineers and Army personnel assembled in New Mexico’s forsaken desert in the pre-dawn hours of July 16, 1945 for a top secret operation, code name: Trinity. Their goal was to detonate the world’s first nuclear bomb. J. Robert Oppenheimer is best known for his role as the scientific … Read more
Army cadet, 14, reveals he’s sleeping in a bomb shelter for FOUR MONTHS to raise money for the Air Ambulance – after being inspired to build it himself by VE Day celebrations Ben Hall, 14, from Dorset, raising money for Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance At the start of lockdown Ben and family built an Anderson … Read more