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Police have confirmed two incidents involving reports of ‘suspicious items’ in Fallowfield are being treated as linked. Emergency crews and bomb disposal experts first descended on Abram Close on Saturday evening (June 6) after a suspicious item was discovered in a front garden. Read More …
A chemical substance incident which sparked a major emergency response in Manchester’s Gay Village is not being treated as terror-related, police have said. One man was arrested on suspicion of making an explosive device after the chemical substances were uncovered in a Read More …
Three people have died, including the suspected attacker, in a car ramming and stabbing attack at a synagogue in Manchester, with the suspect shot by police. The incident came on Yom Kippur – the holiest day in the Jewish religious Read More …
An explosion was carried out after a shell was found in a city centre canal, the Manchester Evening News understands. Police shut off an area near a major tram stop with the bomb squad called to the scene last night Read More …
Police have carried out a controlled explosion after a “suspicious item” was found at a house in south Manchester. Officers made the discovery after raiding a property in Fencot Drive, Longsight, at about 7.50am today (Wednesday). A bomb disposal unit Read More …
Report by Counter Terrorism Policing North West published into the explosion outside the Liverpool Women’s Hospital in November 2021 Following the conclusion of the investigation into the terrorist incident outside the Liverpool Women’s Hospital on Remembrance Sunday in 2021, Counter Read More …
Two men will now serve time behind bars for placing an explosive device on a doorstep in Bury. Shaun Offlands, (29), of Esmond Street, Liverpool was sentenced to 5 years for possessing an explosive device and Lee O’Shea, (31) of Read More …
The security services were guilty of “a significant missed opportunity to take action that might have prevented” the Manchester Arena bombing, according to the chairman of the inquiry into the atrocity. A report published by former high court judge Sir Read More …
Six police officers are under investigation over the terror attack on Manchester Arena, it emerged yesterday. The Independent Office for Police Conduct is carrying out a probe into two Greater Manchester Police officers, while four members of British Transport Police Read More …
Some of the world’s biggest venues, including Manchester Arena, are using weapons scanners “incapable” of detecting some large knives. Evolv, a company that sells artificial-intelligence (AI) scanners, claims they can detect all weapons. But documents shared with BBC News by Read More …
A UK charity has received a two million dollar grant to clear landmines and unexploded ordnance in Ukraine and to deliver risk education to communities caught up in the conflict. The funding has been awarded to Manchester-headquartered MAG (Mines Advisory Read More …
A man who was arrested in connection with the 1996 Manchester IRA bombing has been released without charge. He was held on suspicion of terrorism at Birmingham Airport on Thursday but has now been released from custody, Greater Manchester Police Read More …
A judge has issued a warrant for the arrest of the older brother of the Manchester Arena bomber after he refused to give evidence to the inquiry into the bombing and fled the country. The district judge said he was Read More …
A man with extreme right wing views was found with ‘step-by-step instructions on how to make home explosives’ and a banned ‘push dagger’. Scott Mason, 36, has been jailed following a counter-terror probe. He is said by police to harbour Read More …
A huge blast echoed across Rochdale town centre this morning as the bomb squad carried out a controlled explosion on a ‘suspicious device’. A heavy emergency services response was sparked after the item was discovered at around 3am. A large Read More …
A key intelligence database used by police to investigate extremists was “not fit for purpose” when introduced in 2014, a former counter-terrorism officer has told the BBC. The officer, who retired in 2018, says the National Common Intelligence Application (NCIA) Read More …
MI5 had enough intelligence to regard Salman Abedi as a threat to national security and open an investigation before he bombed the Manchester Arena, killing 22 people and injuring hundreds of others, an inquiry has heard. The Security Service was Read More …
Security improvements have been made at Manchester Arena since the terror attack nearly five years ago and are “continually reviewed”, a public inquiry has heard. Arena operators SMG and security firm Showsec were criticised in the first report published by Read More …
The Manchester Arena bomber was a misogynist who beat up a girl at college for wearing a short skirt, and chose to target young girls at a concert because of his hatred for women, an inquiry has heard. Misogyny should Read More …
Manchester Arena suicide bomber Salman Abedi should have been identified as a threat on the night of the atrocity by those in charge of security, a public inquiry into the 2017 attack has found. Inquiry chairman Sir John Saunders found Read More …