Local terror

Just to follow up on the arrest of a Bristol man last month, following three contolled explosions carried out by police at his home in the north of the city, not far from where Mac's mother lives.

I said at the time that the number of controlled explosions suggested that the security services had found something potentially very dangerous. It looks like I was right: police reportedly found a quantity of Hexamethylene Triperoxide Diamine (a highly exposive compound) together with two home made vests, ball bearings, air gun pellets, nails and screws, wired circuitry, batteries and electric bulb filaments - basically everything you need to construct a very effective home-made explosive device.

Local blog Trym Tales has details of the charges Ibrahim is facing.