terror

We can all now relax a little as the chances of a terror attack are merely ‘highly likely’ rather than ‘imminent’. The threat level has at last been downgraded by the home office to its second highest flavour. The US Department of Homeland Security has …

The fallout from yesterday’s foiled terror attacks continue with various flight cancellations occuring at Heathrow. East Sheen residents are protesting against the planned demolishment of a wartime bunker. Unsurprisingly, the council want to build luxury flats on the site. Beck is going to celebrate his …

Even as the stores sport back to school sales (which depress us, even now), summer lingers on your friends the -ists. This week’s collection of links provides some of the best, worst, and oddest bits of summer fun. So, bring your laptop up onto the …

The man shot during the Forest Gate anti-terror ‘accident’ has been arrested on suspicion of possessing and making child abuse images. In London radio news, Magic FM is top of the pops while Capital are the…erm, bottom of the pops? Roy Greenslade over at the …

Just a quick update. It seems many of you are a little miffed that we don’t get our own colour coded terror alert like the yanks meaning no equivalent Sesame Street themed pisstakes. One of our readers decided that the current SEVERE status required a …

Well we finally got our own American style terrorist threat level and it’s already gone all the way up to 4: The government today made public its official assessment of the threat of a terrorist attack, warning that it is “severe” – meaning an attack …

A London man was indicted yesterday on charges of helping run terrorism fundraising Web sites, setting up terrorists with temporary housing in England and possessed a classified U.S. Navy document revealing troop movements. Apparently we could learn a thing or two from the World Cup …

Note: I am breaking with the Londonist ‘no first person singular’ rule thing because this is an account of a specific incident that affected me and may not represent the views of the entire Londonist team. Also, this post contains naughty words that might warp …

It’s been announced this afternoon that the relatives of terrorist suspects are to get their own family liaison officers. The Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) believe the plan could help reduce tensions following anti-terror raids, which have become a relatively common occurrence in recent …

Looks like Kings Cross will be closed for another day at least, and about 1,000 residents may not be allowed back home until Wednesday. A 21-year-old man arrested in London last week under the Terrorism Act was charged yesterday with conspiracy to murder a person …