Local news

Serious goings-on two streets away from where Mac's mother lives. The BBC reports:-

Bomb disposal experts in Bristol have carried out a third controlled explosion at the home of a man arrested under the Terrorism Act. It comes a day after police were granted a further seven days to question Andrew Ibrahim, a 19-year-old British Muslim convert.

A first controlled blast was carried out at the property, in a cul-de-sac in Westbury-on-Trym, on Friday. A second explosion was carried out earlier on Saturday.

The second and third detonations had originally been intended for Friday evening, but were postponed as officers awaited the delivery of sandbags to minimise the impact of the blast.

I know the security services make mistakes - sometimes they carry out controlled explosions on items that later turn out to have been harmless. But after three controlled explosions, I'm guessing they found something that was potentially very dangerous.