Boris Johnson has said he wants the reportedly English jihadist who beheaded an American journalist to be killed in a bomb attack, and has joined the growing calls for Britons fighting abroad to be stripped of their citizenship.

British intelligence agencies are "very close" to identifying the apparently English jihadist who beheaded American journalist James Foley, the UK’s ambassador to the US has said.

An explosion in the centre of one of Turkey’s most popular tourist resorts killed three people and injured at least 20 others today – less than a day after bomb attacks struck another tourist centre and an Istanbul neighbourhood.

Ten British people were injured, one of them seriously, in a bomb blast on a bus at a popular Turkish holiday resort.