Britain’s intelligence service is looking beyond BAE Systems Plc, Lockheed Martin Corp and other big defence contractors to an untapped army of independent innovators for tools to fight terrorism and for cyber security.

Two policemen refused to give evidence to a high-level probe into Omagh bomb intelligence in the North, it was revealed today.

US intelligence officials kept a file on former prime minister Tony Blair's "private life", a former US Navy communications operator said today.

A British government inquiry into intelligence files linked to the Omagh bomb should be accelerated so it can be used in court, grieving relatives said tonight.

The British government faces legal action within a week if it does not hand over intelligence files which could have helped catch the Omagh bombers, grieving relatives warned today.

Families bereaved by the 1998 Omagh bomb will lambast the intelligence services today for allegedly failing to pass on information to police investigators.

The former head of the British government’s intelligence and security organisation today denied bugging the Royal Family.

THE woman sacked by British intelligence and charged with breaching the Official Secrets Act spoke out last night to justify any disclosures she may have made.

BRITISH Prime Minister Tony Blair yesterday sought to rally support for possible military action against Iraq, urging a recalled House of Commons not to shirk from doing what was “necessary and right”.