Search results for ‘jonathan evans’
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Olympics not an easy target, says MI5 boss
In an assessment of the security threat facing the UK, MI5 Director-General Jonathan Evans predicts a successful and memorable London Olympics but expresses growing concern about Iran.
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MI5 chief: terrorists still want to attack UK
There are hundreds of new leads every month in the fight against Islamist terrorism, Simon Israel hears from the head of the UK’s security services, Jonathan Evans.
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Contaminated blood scandal: Will Post Office publicity speed up justice?
The inquiry into the Post Office Horizon IT scandal has been hearing from more employees of Fujitsu after the tech giant’s bosses apologised yesterday for its role in the wrongful prosecution of hundreds of subpostmasters. Also today, the victims of another scandal were told the final report of the public inquiry into what happened to…
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Five-year lobbying ban for UK ex-ministers recommended
The anti-corruption watchdog has said ministers and senior civil servants could be banned from lobbying for up to five years after leaving office and face penalties if they break the rules.
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FactCheck: will Brexit protect Britain from terrorism?
Does Britain’s membership of the EU makes us less safe? That’s what Leave campaigners Iain Duncan Smith and Boris Johnson have suggested, among others. Mr Duncan Smith said last month that a Paris-style attack is more likely to happen here if the UK votes to Remain in the EU. And Boris Johnson wrote in a…
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Theresa May: ‘More effort needed to wipe-out anti-Semitism’
The home secretary insists efforts to wipe out anti-Semitism in the UK must be redoubled, amid safety fears among the Jewish community.
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Why big business and the NSA sift through your data patterns
“Pattern-of-life” analysis has emerged as a new buzz term in revelations about the National Security Agency. But what is it? And how does it connect shopping with spying?
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Tinker, Tailor… the spy chiefs on show for the first time
How much do we know about the spymasters who stepped out of the shadows to face the television cameras? Channel 4 News has the scoop on the snoopers.
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Government’s defiance over Woolwich murder
Earlier plans to ban London military personnel from wearing uniform in public are overturned as the Cobra committee rules “the best way to defeat terrorists was to continue with normal life”.
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Arise Sir Bradley! New year’s honours revealed
Bradley Wiggins is knighted in the Queen’s new year’s honours list, leading a host of Olympic and Paralympic athletes who made their names at London 2012.
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Six London arrests on day massive terror alert hits M6
As six terror suspects are arrested in London, a bus brings the M6 motorway to a standstill for four hours in a response involving armed police, troops, firefighters and bomb disposal officers.
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Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula: who are they?
Channel 4 News looks at the al-Qaeda group in the Arabian Peninsula linked to explosives found on two cargo planes, and Public Enemy No 1 for the UK intelligence services, Anwar al-Awlaki.
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London bombings: MI5 officer tells of ‘profound regret’
A senior MI5 officer tells the July 7 inquest of the Service’s “profound regret” for failing to prevent the London bombings, which killed 52 innocent people, as Andy Davies reports.
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Torture claims: no prosecution for MI5 officer
An MI5 officer will not be prosecuted over claims he was complicit in the torture of former Guantanamo Bay detainee Binyam Mohamed, Simon Israel discovers.
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Controversial ‘control orders’ to be kept
The Government is believed to have decided to keep “control orders”, which impose restrictions on terror suspects who have not been charged. The issue will be a “Coalition headache”, says Gary Gibbon.
