THERE are more than 200 al-Qaida-trained terrorists walking the streets of Britain in a threat which “thrives”, the country’s former police chief warned yesterday.

The British government today signalled it will offer no more significant concessions to critics of its proposals to impose restrictions including house arrest on suspected terrorists.

Britain’s former top policeman today vigorously defended the UK government’s controversial anti-terror plans – and attacked opponents for failing to understand “the brutal reality of the world we live in”.

Lighters are to be banned on all flights from the United States amid fears they could be used to ignite bombs, it emerged today.

THE counter-terrorism chief at London’s Scotland Yard last night hailed a very important conviction after a British suicide bomber admitted plotting to blow up a passenger jet with a shoe bomb.