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The Royal Falkland Islands Police informed that the controlled explosion of an unexploded ordnance near the Old Dairy has been completed and the section of the MPA Road is now open to vehicles. RFIP had informed that there would be Read More …
An extremist has been jailed for more than three years for encouraging another man to make a bomb by sharing a video in which he used his Amazon Echo speaker to read out a recipe for explosives. Elliot Brown, 25, Read More …
A small amount of uranium has been detected in a package that arrived in the UK at Heathrow Airport following a routine screening. The Metropolitan Police said its counter-terrorism command unit was contacted by Border Force colleagues at the airport Read More …
The local policing district accounted for 41 per cent of all security-related shootings and 60 per cent of all bombing incidents in the 12 month period from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2022. “Of the 29 shooting incidents in Read More …
A dog walker has spoken of his shock after he found an unexploded ‘nail bomb’ near a children’s play area in a Hull park. Joe Smith, who lives on Rosmead Street nearby, was astounded when he found what he described Read More …
A man who police allege went on the run after a bomb attack in Northern Ireland more than 30 years ago has appeared in court charged with causing the explosion. Eamonn Christopher O’Boyle, 53, faces two charges in connection with Read More …
Residents living near an area of woodland where a blue police tent has been set up said they had heard a “few controlled explosions”. However, they added they were still none the wiser about what was going on as officers Read More …
A Thornhill-based landmine clearing charity has been given Scottish Government funding to continue its work in Ukraine. The Halo Trust is working in the war-torn country to remove explosives left behind by Russia’s invasion and has been handed £300,000 from Read More …
An explosion has rocked part of the city after a shell thought to be from the Second World War was destroyed on Brighton beach. Bomb disposal teams were called and a cordon was set up after reports that a wartime Read More …
A World War One artillery bomb was disposed of via a controlled explosion on farmland in Worcestershire. South Quay by the River Severn in Worcester was cordoned off and emergency services were called to the scene. The Explosive Ordnance Disposal Read More …
There are potentially thousands of unexploded World War Two bombs around Wales, with emergency services still dealing with up to 20 callouts a year. With the coastal towns of Cardiff and Swansea key German targets, many are thought to be Read More …
Rules around taking liquids and laptops through airport security will be eased from June 2024, the government has said. The announcement of the biggest relaxation of aviation security regulations in decades confirms reports last month that the change would come Read More …
A man has been charged in connection with the attempted murder of two police officers in Strabane last month. Detectives from the Terrorism Investigation Unit investigating the alleged attack on Thursday, November 17, charged the 28-year-old on Tuesday night. A Read More …
A Libyan intelligence official accused of making the bomb that brought down Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988 in an international act of terrorism has been taken into U.S. custody and will face federal charges in Washington, Read More …
A west London barber has been found guilty of sending thousands of pounds to fund terrorist activity in Syria, following an investigation by the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command. Tarek Namouz, 43 (01.09.79) of west London, was arrested in May 2021 Read More …
A self-styled Doomsday “prepper” turned his home into an explosives factory and set off devices in the garden, a court has been told. Simon Pilgrim, 41, from Derby, was arrested last December when police raided his accommodation in a multi-occupancy Read More …
A plane travelling into the UK was diverted to an airport in Czech Republic after a suspected improvised explosive device was on board the aircraft. The flight was understood to be travelling from Krakow in Poland, to Bristol in the Read More …
Explosives experts were called back to a house in the Bargoed area following the discovery of a second “suspicious device”. As the Argus reported last week, there has been a major police presence in Sycamore Court following the discovery of Read More …
Police have carried out a controlled explosion on a viable pipe bomb-type device found in Co Down. The security alert, in Brookfield Avenue, Banbridge, has now ended, a PNSI spokesman said. Officers and ammunition experts had been called to the scene. Read More …
A seventh man has been arrested by police investigating the attempted murder of two police officers in Strabane, County Tyrone. The two officers escaped injury when a bomb detonated at the side of their vehicle on 17 November. The New Read More …