A large-scale exercise to test how the emergency services will need to react if a major incident strikes during the London 2012 Games will be staged tomorrow.

BRITAIN’S prime minister David Cameron yesterday declared a fightback against looters and rioters as a community mourned the deaths of three men killed while trying to protect local businesses.

POLITICIANS faced a barrage of criticism for their response to the violence that has rocked Britain for four days.

A Tory MEP was rebuked by the party today after suggesting that looters and arsonists taking part in riots should be shot on sight by the Army.

The number of police officers on the streets of London is to be almost trebled tonight to 16,000 to deal with the “sickening” scenes of violence of recent nights, David Cameron said today.

Air travellers face no let up in stringent security checks after it emerged one of the cargo plane bombs was transported on passenger aircraft before being found.

The Saunier Duval-Scott team have voluntarily withdrawn from the Tour de France in the wake of the positive drug test returned by their star climber Riccardo Ricco.

Sienna Miller has signed up to star in a movie version of GI Joe.

Hundreds of late-night revellers are feared to have been the target of a massive terrorist car bomb left outside a landmark London nightclub.

JOHN GOSDEN’S Cape Cobra can make some small inroads into his 400,000 guineas price tag with victory in the first division of the Wise Catering Maiden Stakes at Salisbury today.

Customers at a restaurant and an hotel visited by a poisoned ex-KGB officer will be tested for the radioactive substance that killed him, health chiefs said today.

JAMIE SPENCER can guide the once-raced Silk And Scarlet to victory in the Listed Silver Flash Stakes at Leopardstown this evening.

Day Flight has been given the go-ahead to take on North Light and company in the Budweiser Irish Derby at the Curragh on Sunday.

THONGCHAI JAIDEE may have no problem jumping out of aeroplanes and waving around machine guns but he admitted to never having felt as nervous as he did in the closing stages of his historic victory at the Carlsberg Malaysian Open yesterday.