Counter-terror police have caused traffic mayhem by conducting sweeping spot checks on thousands of vehicles at the Port of Dover as furious motorists battled ’15-mile’ queues today. Officers from the Metropolitan Police and Kent Police searched all vehicles and passengers entering the major shipping hub as part of a ‘sensitive’ counter-terrorism operation this morning. Scotland … Read more
BGT EXCLUSIVE: Amanda Holden and Alesha Dixon SCREAM in terror as The Coven make a VERY hair-raising entrance for second semi-final By Laura Fox For Mailonline Published: 14:10 BST, 12 September 2020 | Updated: 14:10 BST, 12 September 2020 They’re set to compete with seven other acts for a spot in the final. And it … Read more
Paramedics took almost 20 minutes to arrive following the Manchester Arena bomb explosion and only three entered the blast zone to treat casualties, a public inquiry heard yesterday. Just one ambulance worker went into the City Room foyer – where Salman Abedi, 22, had detonated his backpack device – in the first 40 minutes and … Read more
Britain urgently needs to shift its mindset from a terror of the Covid-19 virus to focus on the damage already done to our economy – and the worse that is yet to come. The spike in infections reported in the past few days was to be expected as life slowly returns to our streets and … Read more
Policeman is killed in terror attack in Tunisia as forces shoot dead three Islamic militants who rammed their vehicle into officers Assailants rammed their vehicle into security officers, attacked them with knives One officer was killed and another was injured in coastal resort town of Sousse Sousse was the site of Tunisia’s deadliest extremist attack … Read more
Prisoners who pose a terror threat may have to remain behind bars far beyond their normal release date. Hundreds of inmates jailed for non-terror offences who are feared to hold extremist sympathies could be refused the right to automatic release. The radical changes to sentencing rules will be the centrepiece of legislation set to be … Read more
The thirteen men and a woman who went on trial today over the 2015 attacks against the Charlie Hebdo satirical newspaper and a kosher supermarket in Paris ‘are not second fiddles, they are full accomplices’, a survivor’s lawyer has claimed. Seventeen people and all three gunmen died during the three days of attacks in January … Read more
French magazine Charlie Hebdo will REPUBLISH cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed as trial into 2015 terrorist gun rampage that left 12 dead gets underway By Afp Published: 10:22 BST, 1 September 2020 | Updated: 10:35 BST, 1 September 2020 France’s Charlie Hebdo magazine will republish its controversial cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed as 14 people … Read more
Hotel Rwanda hero who saved 1,200 lives during country’s 1994 genocide and was played by Don Cheadle in the film is arrested on terror charges Paul Rusesabagina, 66, is a well-known critic of President Paul Kagame There was an international arrest warrant for him for crimes including terrorism Police announced his arrest on Monday but … Read more
Dramatic moment RAF Typhoon jet escorted Ryanair plane after terror alert was sounded over ‘suspicious item’ in toilet that turned out to be a phone – as two men are RELEASED without charge RAF Typhoon jets were scrambled to intercept the Lauda jet after the report Armed police surrounded it on runway when it landed … Read more