BRITAIN’S top spy, in the first public speech by a serving espionage chief, yesterday said terrorists might hit the West again “at huge human cost”, but nuclear proliferation by states was a more far-reaching danger.

Britain’s ambassador in Paris at the time of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales emphatically denied today that he ordered the embalming of her body on the instructions of MI5 to “conceal the fact she was pregnant with Dodi Fayed’s child”.