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British personnel in Iraq will be sent ‘outside the wire’ as part of a change in strategy in the fight against so-called Islamic State. UK forces deployed at Iraq’s Al-Asad Airbase will train further forward, and provide enhanced protection for those Brits working in Read More …
Fire crews and bomb disposal experts carried out a controlled explosion in Sevenoaks earlier today (October 5). Residents close to the property on Woodside Road were advised to keep all windows and doors closed as a precaution. Kent Fire and Read More …
A Redruth man who was arrested following an explosion and discovery of a suspicious device in the town has been released under investigation. Armed police evacuated the streets around Redruth train station on Monday afternoon (October 1) after reports of a Read More …
Police have executed warrants in Burnham today (Thursday) as part of an investigation into the possession of explosives. Thames Valley Police (TVP) raided a property in The Fairway at 11am this morning, and conducted operations at the London Clancy Industrial Warehouse site off Read More …
Thieves used explosives to steal an ATM cash box from a Waterloo bank in the early hours of this morning. The raiders – described as four young males in black clothing – made off in a black Audi after the blast. The Read More …
Two men have been charged following a police raid in which explosives were discovered at a property in Leicester. A 27-year-old man from the city has been accused of manufacturing explosives under suspicious circumstances. A 51-year-old man, also from Leicester, Read More …
Army bomb disposal experts were called to a cemetery in Salford after a ‘live and viable’ Second World War grenade was found on playing fields. The explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) team from the Royal Logistics Corps blew up the grenade Read More …
A bomb which exploded outside a café was packed with nails and screws. It was left under the shutters of The Lounge in Pendleton, Salford, earlier this week. It damaged the shutters, canopy, windows and pavement outside the cafe. The Read More …
Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley has said ‘hundreds’ of officers are currently ‘trawling through CCTV’ in a desperate bid to close in on the ‘suspects’ involved in the Parsons Green bomb. Rowley said Met Police had embarked on a complex investigation Read More …
Police are investigating an incident on a London Underground train, amid reports of an explosion. The blast left a number of passengers with facial burns, it has been reported. Scotland Yard said it was aware of the incident at Parsons Read More …
Police officers were spotted in Godfrey Drive, Kirk Hallam – and a man has been arrested A bomb disposal team has been helping police search a house in Kirk Hallam. Officers were spotted outside a property, in Godfrey Drive. Police said Read More …
Exercise Wildjack Fire is as much about specialist skills, as it is about a return to basics. In rural Norfolk on the Stanta Training Area, soldiers from 33 Engineer Regiment EOD are honing their skills across a number of scenarios. The situations they face Read More …
Paramedics are being equipped with an antidote to some of the deadliest nerve agents amid fears terrorists are plotting a chemical strike on Britain. Thousands of frontline medics have already received the epipen-style devices that could combat VX or sarin, Read More …
Armed forces are to use high street drones for mine clearance and peace keeping operations in Cambodia and during United Nations missions around the world, following training from the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan). This is the first time that the Royal Read More …
Bomb squad cops swooped on a primary school yesterday after three suspicious packages were discovered in the grounds. Locals feared explosives had been planted in an underpass – and cops found two other similar packages at nearby Whitefield Primary School in Read More …
A bomb disposal unit has carried out a controlled explosion at Newcastle College following concerns over the storage of chemicals. Roads were cordoned off while Army officers moved the substances from the city centre campus to be blown up on Read More …
A commander in Islamic State ordered a group of Australian men to build a bomb destined for an Etihad Airways flight departing from Sydney, police have said. The improvised explosive device was intended to be smuggled on to a flight Read More …
A terrorist who infiltrated the British military and supplied bombs to dissident Irish republicans has been jailed for 18 years. Ex-Royal Marine Ciaran Maxwell made 43 purpose-built hides across England and Northern Ireland, in which he stashed anti-personnel mines, mortars, Read More …
Four Australian-Lebanese men accused of plotting to bring down a plane planned to use poisonous gas or a crude bomb disguised as a meat mincer, reports say. The men, who were arrested in raids in Sydney on Saturday night, are not thought Read More …
An airline passenger who tried to carry a “crude but viable” nail bomb onto a Ryanair plane was released and allowed to catch a later flight because security staff did not realise the device was dangerous, a court heard yesterday. Read More …